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Re: changing sys.path

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Andrea Crotti wrote:

> On 02/10/2012 03:27 PM, Peter Otten wrote:
>> The package a will be either a.c/a/ or a.b/a/ depending on whether
>> a.c/ or a.b/ appears first in sys.path. If it's a.c/a, that does not
>> contain a c submodule or subpackage.
> 
> 
> I would agree if I didn't have this declaration
> __import__('pkg_resources').declare_namespace(__name__)
> in each subdirectory.

Sorry, you didn't mention that in the post I responded to and I didn't 
follow the thread closely.

I found a description for declare_namespace() at
http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PkgResources

but the text explaining the function is completely unintelligible to me, so 
I cannot contribute anything helpful here :(

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changing sys.path Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> - 2012-02-01 16:15 +0000
  Re: changing sys.path jmfauth <wxjmfauth@gmail.com> - 2012-02-01 09:06 -0800
  Re: changing sys.path Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-02-01 09:17 -0800
    Re: changing sys.path Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> - 2012-02-10 13:08 +0000
    Re: changing sys.path Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-02-10 09:24 -0500
    Re: changing sys.path Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> - 2012-02-10 14:51 +0000
    Re: changing sys.path Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-02-10 10:06 -0500
    Re: changing sys.path Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> - 2012-02-10 15:14 +0000
    Re: changing sys.path Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-02-10 16:27 +0100
    Re: changing sys.path Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> - 2012-02-10 15:38 +0000
    Re: changing sys.path Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-02-10 16:40 +0100
    Re: changing sys.path Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-02-10 17:00 +0100
    Re: changing sys.path Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> - 2012-02-10 20:58 +0000
  Re: changing sys.path Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com> - 2012-02-02 21:10 -0800
  Re: changing sys.path John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2012-02-08 13:43 -0800

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