#230 - allow importing validate directly to still work

2 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/tests/test_validate.py b/src/tests/test_validate.py
index 07c1de7..2a19cc8 100644
--- a/src/tests/test_validate.py
+++ b/src/tests/test_validate.py
@@ -5,6 +5,17 @@ import pytest
 from configobj.validate import Validator, VdtValueTooSmallError
 
 
+class TestImporting(object):
+    def test_top_level(self):
+        import validate
+        
+    def test_within_configobj_using_from(self):
+        from configobj import validate
+
+    def test_within_configobj(self):
+        import configobj.validate
+
+
 class TestBasic(object):
     def test_values_too_small(self, val):
         config = '''
diff --git a/src/validate/__init__.py b/src/validate/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c3bbcd3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/validate/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+"""
+This is a backwards compatibility-shim to support:
+
+ ```
+ import validate
+ ```
+
+ in a future release, we'd expect this to no longer work and
+ instead using:
+
+ ```
+ import configobj.validate
+ ```
+
+ or:
+
+ ```
+ from configobj import validate
+ ```
+"""
+import configobj.validate as validate