6.4.3. Packages in Multiple Directories¶

Packages support one more special attribute, __path__. This is initialized to be a list containing the name of the directory holding the package’s __init__.py before the code in that file is executed. This variable can be modified; doing so affects future searches for modules and subpackages contained in the package.
While this feature is not often needed, it can be used to extend the set of modules found in a package.

Footnotes

[1]	In fact function definitions are also ‘statements’ that are ‘executed’; the execution of a module-level function enters the function name in the module’s global symbol table.