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diff --git a/Doc/packaging/setupscript.rst b/Doc/packaging/setupscript.rst index dbac3dd..cafde20 100644 --- a/Doc/packaging/setupscript.rst +++ b/Doc/packaging/setupscript.rst @@ -177,6 +177,10 @@ resulting object code are identical in both cases; the only difference is where in the filesystem (and therefore where in Python's namespace hierarchy) the resulting extension lives. +If your distribution contains only one or more extension modules in a package, +you need to create a :file:`{package}/__init__.py` file anyway, otherwise Python +won't be able to import anything. + If you have a number of extensions all in the same package (or all under the same base package), use the :option:`ext_package` keyword argument to :func:`setup`. For example, :: |