Terry Reedy
3/25/2010 4:43:00 PM
On 3/25/2010 6:16 AM, egbert wrote:
> When I do 'from some_package import some_module'
> the __init__.py of some_package will be run.
> However, there will not be anything like a package-module,
> and the effects of __init__.py seem all to be lost. Is that true ?
No. If you do
from sys import modules
print(modules.keys())
you will see both some_package and some_package.some_module among the
entries. The first is the result of executing some_package/__init__.py.
As usual, that code will *not* be re-exectured on subsequent imports
involving some_package.
> Or can I still do something useful with __init__.py ?
> e
Some packages put something like 'from _default_stuff import *' in
__init__.py with the intention that the package by used as
import package
perhaps [optionally] followed by
import package.specialized_stuff
Terry Jan Reedy