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On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 10:23 AM, Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org> wrote:
> However, more generally, how am I supposed to know that a module is part of
> a package, and needs a "magic" stanza to get a module loaded?

If the import path of the module has a dot in it, then it's part of a package.