D2752: cbor: add a __init__.py to top level cbor module

[indygreg (Gregory Szorc)]

indygreg added a subscriber: alex_gaynor.
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  In https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2752#45926, @pulkit wrote:
  
  > In https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2752#44289, @indygreg wrote:
  >
  > > I think you should send the relative import patches to upstream. Adding `from __future__ import absolute_import` would also be a nice touch.
  >
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  > I tried that at https://github.com/agronholm/cbor2/pull/20.  I might be doing something wrong here but I am not sure what's that.
  
  
  I started engaging the package author on that PR. I care enough about this issue that I may start a discussion on a Python mailing list about it. Not sure which one though.
  
  @alex_gaynor: if I wanted to convince some heavy hitters in the Python community that relative imports within packages should be a best practice, how would you recommend going about that?

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