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Based on Python-ideas thread My objections to implicit package directories by Nick 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

CodeDiscoveryUseCases (last edited 2012-03-22 05:49:02 by techtonik)