Comment 2 for bug 385371

I don't think it's that awkward (as you said, many projects follow this convention), although I agree with moving the specs directory out of src. Also, it helps a bit if you are a user of PyDev, which needs a separate directory for source code.

The extra step you mention is having to type src/ or is there any other issue I'm missing?

If anyone wants to have a look at those examples, they were originally posted here:

http://fluidinfo.com/esteve/stuff/txamqp_consumer.py
http://fluidinfo.com/esteve/stuff/txamqp_publisher.py

as a comment to Jason's excellent article:

http://blogs.digitar.com/jjww/2009/01/rabbits-and-warrens/#comment-681