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Guido's rewording of my definition of "root package", with an addition by me.

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Greg Ward 2000-05-26 02:24:28 +00:00
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@ -171,12 +171,14 @@ following glossary of common Python terms:
\item[package] a module that contains other modules; typically contained
in a directory in the filesystem and distinguished from other
directories by the presence of a file \file{\_\_init\_\_.py}.
\item[root package] the ``package'' that modules not in a package live
in. The vast majority of the standard library is in the root package,
as are many small, standalone third-party modules that don't belong to
a larger module collection. (The root package isn't really a package,
since it doesn't have an \file{\_\_init\_\_.py} file. But we have to
call it something.)
\item[root package] the root of the hierarchy of packages. (This isn't
really a package, since it doesn't have an \file{\_\_init\_\_.py}
file. But we have to call it something.) The vast majority of the
standard library is in the root package, as are many small, standalone
third-party modules that don't belong to a larger module collection.
Unlike regular packages, modules in the root package can be found in
many directories: in fact, every directory listed in \code{sys.path}
can contribute modules to the root package.
\end{description}