On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:52 AM, Shane Hathaway <shane@hathawaymix.org> wrote:
Martijn Faassen wrote:
Since ``setuptools`` is a dependency of our packages anyway, we can instead do the following::
__import__('pkg_resources').declare_namespace(__name__)
Feel free to use that and also feel free to simplify existing ``__init__.py`` modules. Just make sure ``setuptools`` is a declared dependency of the package.
Nit: In this case, two lines are better than one.
import pkg_resources pkg_resources.declare_namespace(__name__)
There's no need to use the lesser known __import__ function when an ordinary import statement will do.
Actually three lines will be required to replace that single line: import pkg_resources pkg_resources.declare_namespace(__name__) del(pkg_resources) BTW, I am +1 for single line __import__ approach. Regards, Baiju M