When to use Directory over Python Package?
You can use "Python Package" when you want to put some modules in there which should be importable. PyCharm will automatically create an __init__.py
for the directory.
Why not create everything as a Python Package?
Not every subdirectory in a project should necessarily be a package. For example docs
and tests
are commonly just directories.
Does PyCharm mark a location as one or the other based on its name?
PyCharm seems to mark the icon with a dot if the subdirectory name is a valid identifier and not a keyword, regardless of whether the subdirectory is a package or not. This is possibly because, in Python 3.3+, subdirs are also implicit namespace packages (they are still importable even when there is no __init__.py
file).
If you have a project associated with a Python 2.7 interpreter, you don't get the dot on the icon unless the __init__.py
file is added, since implicit namespace packages are not a thing in Python 2.
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