CodeDiscoveryUseCases

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Based on Python-ideas thread My objections to implicit package directories by Alyssa Coghlan and this message from Yuval Greenfield:

I've always had trouble understanding and explaining the complexities and intricacies of python packaging.`

Is there a most basic but comprehensive list of use cases?

standard library

import from a list of paths to be searched.<

current project

import from a relative path based on this file’s current directory

package bundled with project

import from a relative path based on an anchor directory

virtual-env

import from an alternative lists of paths based on an anchor directory