[Zope-dev] Coding style clarifications

[Christian Theune]

On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 18:18 +0100, Martijn Faassen wrote:
> We discovered this when Christian Theune said he wanted his package 
> __init__.py empty as otherwise he runs into circular import issues. Some 
> of the others including myself were puzzled as we put APIs in 
> __init__.py quite frequently without such problems. Turned out it was 
> because he is using the same convention for imports you do, and we weren't.

The conclusion that I took from that round was that either approach
works reasonably well (with its own limitations) by itself, but mixing
them increases the chance for import problems a lot.

Christian

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