On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 3:39 AM, Brett Cannon <[email protected]> wrote: > To tell if a module is a package, you should do either ``if mod.__name__ == > mod.__package__`` or ``if hasattr(mod, '__path__')``.
The second of those is actually a bit more reliable. As with many import quirks, the answer to "But why?" is "Because __main__" :P Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com