when looking up namespace-packages I found pkgutil which lets me add a myapp.user package with the following in its __init__.py and nothing else
import os, os.path from pkgutil import extend_path homedir = os.environ.get('HOME') or os.environ.get('USERPROFILE') __path__ = extend_path([os.path.abspath(homedir + os.sep + 'myapp')], __name__) now I can do "from myapp.user.plugins import *" and it works -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list