Python Programming with the Java™ Class Libraries: A Tutorial for Building Web and Enterprise Applications with Jython

Packages

Packages are a way of organizing Python modules and a way to prevent one programmer from stomping on the module of another. You assign a module to a package with the form Package_Name.Module_Name. Thus, the module name mystuff.sys indicates a module named sys in a package named mystuff.

Packages are essentially directories that contain a special __init__.py file to indicate to Python that the directory it's dealing with is a package. This file is used when the package is first loaded. Let's create our own package and call it package1/__init__.py.

First we create a directory called package1. Then we create a file named __init __.py with one Python statement that prints "Hello from package1", and save it to the package1 directory. Next ...