Make serial into a namespace package.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/serial/__init__.py b/serial/__init__.py
index c3cc154..3874193 100644
--- a/serial/__init__.py
+++ b/serial/__init__.py
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
 
 import importlib
 import sys
+from pkgutil import extend_path
+
 
 from serial.serialutil import *
 #~ SerialBase, SerialException, to_bytes, iterbytes
@@ -17,6 +19,9 @@ __version__ = '3.1.1'
 
 VERSION = __version__
 
+# serial is a namespace package
+__path__ = extend_path(__path__, __name__)
+
 # pylint: disable=wrong-import-position
 if sys.platform == 'cli':
     from serial.serialcli import Serial