Package

[Matthieu Pichaud]

I have a problem organizing my programs in packages and subpackages.

I use python.2.3.3
I built a test structure to try to understand how it worked:

/test
/test/__init__.py (containing: __all__=['test1'])
/test/test1/
/test/test1/__init__.py (containing: __all__=['test2'])
/test/test1/test2/
/test/test1/test2/__init__.py (containing: __all__=['test3'])
/test/test1/test2/test3.py (containing: print 'test3')

Then I run:

from test import *
test1 <module 'test.test1' from 'test/test1/__init__.py'> test2

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
NameError: name 'test2' is not defined
So it seems that I am very limited in the number of subpackages I can
create.
Is it normal? Am I silly organizing my programs like that?

Thanks for your help!

Matth

[bruno at modulix]

Matthieu Pichaud wrote:

I have a problem organizing my programs in packages and subpackages.

I use python.2.3.3
I built a test structure to try to understand how it worked:

/test
/test/__init__.py (containing: __all__=['test1'])
/test/test1/
/test/test1/__init__.py (containing: __all__=['test2'])
/test/test1/test2/
/test/test1/test2/__init__.py (containing: __all__=['test3'])
/test/test1/test2/test3.py (containing: print 'test3')

Then I run:

from test import *
test1 <module 'test.test1' from 'test/test1/__init__.py'> test2

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
NameError: name 'test2' is not defined

So it seems that I am very limited in the number of subpackages I can
create.
Not at all.
Is it normal?
Yes : when you have nested namespaces, it won't magically become a flat
namespace. There's a mostly clear documention on this in the official
Python tutorial.
Am I silly organizing my programs like that?

Dunno - it depends on the program. But still:
python -c "import this" | grep nested

HTH
--
bruno desthuilliers
python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for
p in 'o****@xiludom.gro'.split('@')])"