[Zope3-dev] Importing
Guido van Rossum
guido@python.org
Wed, 12 Dec 2001 23:20:28 -0500
> I have a fairly rich CMF based product (CMF chosen for it's
> component-model-like features more than any need for actual content
> management features). As I noticed that the amount of modules was
> increasing dramatically, I broke the product out into sub-packages:
>
> myproduct/base
> myproduct/content
> myproduct/interfaces
> myproduct/tools
> myproduct/workflow
>
> base has some common base clases, so an import in
> content/contact.py looks like:
>
> from Products.myproduct.base import FolderyContent
> ^^^^^^^^
>
> I interpreted Chris Withers' original question to be about - what
> happens if that lead "Products" goes away? It's something we're
> well used to having around. How am I supposed to reference
> associated subpackages if it's not there? Am I designing my code
> poorly? Am I missing out on some undocumented __magic__
> variable/attribute? Or am I just confused about where this
> discussion has been / is going?
Assuming you have picked a unique name for your product (like
"myproduct" :-), what's wrong with changing all your imports to
from myproduct.base import FolderyContent
???
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)