"namespace" vs "module" packages (was Re: [Zope3-dev] packaging conventions note)

[Guido van Rossum]

> This is fine except for the explicit relative import problem. If I
> yank a subpackage out of Zope (lets say it has no other Zope package
> dependancies) and try to use it by itself I'll have to diddle with
> all the imports before it will work, at the least the ones in the
> unit tests. That's kinda lame.

It's also a feature.  Renaming a package has many subtle consequences
and should not be done lightly.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)