On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 10:28 -0700, Phil wrote: > I'm really new to Python and I am absolutely stumped trying to figure > this out. I have searched plenty, but I am either searching for the > wrong keywords or this isn't possible. > > What I want to do is have one import be global for the entire package. > Here is an example... > > <package> > __init__.py > module1.py > module2.py > ... > moduleN.py > > I was thinking that I could just, for example, 'from datetime import > datetime' in __init__.py and have the ability to use 'datetime' > anywhere in any of the modules in 'package'. > > This didn't work for me. Did I just do something wrong? Is what I am > trying to do possible? >
That's not how packages (were designed to) work. A package is basically a namespace. It doesn't do anything special outside of providing a namespace for common modules. There are some special features (e.g. __init__.py which is basically the "body" of the package and '__all__' which handles wildcard imports of a package) but other than that it's just a namespace. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
