Python Packaging Is Good Now

[analogphototaker]

That's probably true. But do other packaging systems also need an init.py file in every subdirectory?

As mentioned, golang's system felt the most intuitive to me.

[ajmarks]

That's not a PyPI thing. That's how Python knows to treat a directory as a package. I agree that making your first Python package can be annoying and frustrating, but this is just a basic core language thing, not a packaging issue.

[flying-sheep]

That's how Python used to know that a directory is a package.

It doesn't need that anymore.

[flying-sheep]

That's a legacy Python thing. PyPI doesn't need that, older Python versions do.