[Grok-dev] Re: releasing 0.12.1

[Martijn Faassen]

Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> On 4 Jun 2008, at 15:25 , Sebastian Ware wrote:
>> Could someone show me what a module alias looks like? I have googled 
>> but not found any example.
> 
> 
> import the.new.module
> sys.modules['old.module'] = the.new.module

The dots imply that this works with namespace packages, does it? Or do 
you have to create 'old' first and then 'module'?

I wonder whether we cannot provide some infrastructure that will help 
with this very common migration case.

Regards,

Martijn