[issue19821] pydoc.ispackage() could be more accurate

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[issue19821] pydoc.ispackage() could be more accurate

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[issue19821] pydoc.ispackage() could be more accurate

Claudiu Popa added the comment: I would go on the deprecation route with this and removing it in 3.6, just like the formatter module. -- ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue19821] pydoc.ispackage() could be more accurate

Claudiu.Popa added the comment: It was used by pydoc.py until 2006, when it was removed with this commit: Changeset: 37821 (3135648026c4) Second phase of refactoring for runpy, pkgutil, pydoc, and setuptools. Is it worth to fix this? -- nosy: +Claudiu.Popa __

[issue19821] pydoc.ispackage() could be more accurate

New submission from Eric Snow: pydoc.ispackage() is a best-effort guess at whether or not a path is the location of a package. However, it uses hard-coded suffixes when matching file names, which can miss files (e.g. extension modules and sourceless packages on Windows). It should probably u