Hal Murray <[email protected]>:
>
> [email protected] said:
> > If you look in the library Python directories you will see that this is not
> > done. It would make writing imports a problem, as "ntp-1.0" is not parsed
> > as a single token in Python.
>
> So we have to use things like ntp, ntp2, ... ?
>
> Do Python libraries get used by other projects? (as compared to the project
> that installs them) How do they change the API?
You can load a library even if its API version has changed. It's up
to library authors to provide a version explicitly, if they choose to,
and library clients to check it, if they choose to.
In practice this is seldom done; instead APIs are kept backward-compatible.
Practice gets some help here from Python being a language that does not
conduce to bulky code; thus, nobody minds leaving old entry points in
place very much.
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