seeking the "Hello World" of Packages

[Bell, Kevin]

I'm trying to get an idea of how packages work and I've read about it in
the Py Tutorial and Nutshell, but I'm still craving a concrete example
that I can poke through. Does anyone have a really basic package that
does very little that I could look at?

What I've gathered thus far is that a package is simply a directory, say
C:\MyPackage, that would contain __init__.py which tells Python to be
aware of all the other modules in C:\MyPackage. Am I correct?

C:\MyPackage\
\__init__.py
\justPrintHelloWorld.py
\multiply5By10.py

Would I expect the following behavior?:
50

 

[faulkner]

yep, that's all a package is.
if you have trouble importing, check your PYTHONPATH environment
variable, or sys.path.

 

[dwhall]

Kevin,

I just posted a small package to the python package index. It has one
source file of interest and some unit tests. The remaining files are
either needed for or made by distutils. Should be pretty easy to
follow if you've read the distutils docs. Note that the package you
get does not have the MANIFEST.in file (the tool creates MANIFEST
automatically using info from MANIFEST.in).

http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/pycscope/0.2

share and enjoy,

!!Dean