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On 08/28/2014 12:50 PM, Radomir Dopieralski wrote:
> On 28/08/14 12:41, Radomir Dopieralski wrote:
>> On 27/08/14 16:31, Sean Dague wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>> In python 2.7 (using pip) namespaces are a bolt on because of the way
>>> importing modules works. And depending on how you install things in a
>>> namespace will overwrite the base __init__.py for the top level part of
>>> the namespace in such a way that you can't get access to the submodules.
>>>
>>> It's well known, and every conversation with dstuft that I've had in the
>>> past was "don't use namespaces".
>>
>> I think this is actually a solved problem. You just need a single line
>> in your __init__.py files:
>>
>> https://bitbucket.org/thomaswaldmann/xstatic-jquery/src/tip/xstatic/__init__.py
>>
> More on that at
> http://pythonhosted.org/setuptools/setuptools.html?namespace-packages#namespace-packages
> 

This is not solved. In fact, we already declare the namespace in the
__init__ files. The problem, as Sean mentioned, is the way pip and
setuptools will install this packages, which ends up overwriting the
base __init__ file.

Thanks for the links, though.
Flavio

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