Brian Quinlan wrote: > Recently, I became responsible for maintaining some Python code, which > was organized as follows: > > user/pylib > ui > ... > project2/pylib > ui > ... > project3/pylib > ui > ... > python-packages/user => /user/pylib > project2 => /project2/pylib > project3 => /project3/pylib > > The idea is that "python-packages" is added to sys.path and then every > project can import the library package from every other project. NOTE: I > think that this structure is crazy but I'm just the poor maintenance > programmer. > > Anyway, the problem is that Windows does not have a symlink facility to > accommodate this (AFAIK) and the Python import mechanism does not > resolve shortcuts. > > Therefore, I wrote a very simple import hook to get around that problem. > If you are interested, the code is here: > http://www.sweetapp.com/shortcut/shortcutimporter.py > > BTW, does anyone else think that this functionality should be part of > core Python?
I wonder (but haven't yet figured out) if something similar can be achived with pkgutil and one or more .pkg files. Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
