On 18 January 2016 at 04:27, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > > The module import system will only recognise a directory as a “package” > (Python's technical term for “a point in the import hierarchy which > contains other things to import”) if that directory contains a file > named ‘__init__.py’. If you do not need the directory to also be > recognised as a package, it should not have such a file.
That was the case prior to 3.3. However (I can't immediately test this but) now a directory without an __init__.py can be an implicit namespace package if it contains importable modules: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0420/ -- Oscar _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
