Package: python-support
Version: 1.0.3
Severity: wishlist
Stuff like the genshi templating system, uses .html (or other) files
mapped into the Python module namespace; in particular, a dir "foo"
containing only .html files can be referred to from the module
namespace as "foo.something" when "something.html" exists under foo/.
Usually this happens in user code (e.g. the templates/ dir in several
MVC frameworks). I've just stumbled upon a case where a python library
does that and gets side stepped by python-support. In the
"python-toscawidgets" package (currently in experimental), there is a
module path "tw.forms.templates" corresponding to a dir that just
contains *.html and *.mak files [1].
To ensure "tw.forms.templates" is a valid module, upstream ships a
__init__.py file in that dir. But when that dir gets handled by
update-python-modules, the __init__.py file is removed, on the
assumption that not containing any *.py (or *.so) files, that dir
should not be a module.
While that is probably a sane default behaviour (to work around many
dump upstreams which put __init__.py everywhere), in this particular
case I need a way to tell update-python-modules that that dir should
really be mapped to the module namespace. With the current
implementation, I did not find the way to do that, hence I'm filing a
wishlist request about it
My current (horrible) work around is to touch a dummy and empty .py
file in the appropriate dir before the build start. Please get me away
from such hack :)
Keep up the good work.
Cheers.
[1] z...@usha:~$ ls /usr/share/pyshared/tw/forms/templates/
calendar.html fieldset.html label_hidden.html list_form.mak
table_fieldset.html
calendar.mak fieldset.mak label_hidden.mak
select_field.html table_fieldset.mak
check_box_table.html form.html label.html
select_field.mak table_form.html
check_box_table.mak form.mak label.mak
selection_list.html table_form.mak
datagrid.html i_dont_exist.py list_fieldset.html
selection_list.mak textarea.html
datagrid.mak input_field.html list_fieldset.mak spacer.html
textarea.mak
input_field.mak list_form.html spacer.mak
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
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APT policy: (500, 'unstable-i386'), (500, 'transitional-i386'), (500,
'transitional'), (500, 'testing-i386'), (500, 'stable-i386'), (500,
'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental-i386')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages python-support depends on:
ii dpkg 1.15.3 Debian package management system
ii python 2.5.4-2 An interactive high-level object-o
python-support recommends no packages.
python-support suggests no packages.
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