On Mar 11, 2009, at 8:24 AM, Baiju M wrote:
Hi All, Now we have 'setuptools' as a dependency for all packages. (I guess this is to make Buildout happy ?)
No, it is because setuptools is needed for namespace packages.
So, it is certain that 'pkg_resources' module will be always available as it is bundled with 'setuptools'. If that is the case, why do we need a fall-back import of 'pkgutil' to declare a namespace package?
We don't.
So instead of:
try: import pkg_resources pkg_resources.declare_namespace(__name__) except ImportError: import pkgutil __path__ = pkgutil.extend_path(__path__, __name__)
Just this line would be enough to declare a namespace:
__import__('pkg_resources').declare_namespace(__name__)
Am I missing something ?
Nope. Jim -- Jim Fulton Zope Corporation