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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 09:11:19 -0600
Subject: Re: Question about import
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On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 8:47 AM, Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> wrote:
> Ian Kelly wrote:
>> That surprises me also, but I suspect it's because they're
>> subdirectories of the current working directory rather than packages
>> found on the sys.path.
>
> So even the experts cannot keep up with all those nifty new features:
>
> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0420/ (Implicit Namespace Packages)

I've seen that before, but forgot about it. I wouldn't call myself an
expert, though; I haven't been using Python regularly for the past
couple of years, so I am getting a bit rusty.