Starting from setuptools 19.4, more concrete from the following commit:

    https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/commit/ebc54982

setuptools sorts namespaced packages .__path__ to be in sync with sys.path .
That however breaks for wendelin.core used from in-tree or installed in
development mode, because we are doing tricks in top-level import redirector
(see e870781d "Top-level in-tree import redirector"):

    (z+numpy.v2)kirr@teco:~/tmp/trashme/wendelin.core$ python -c 'import wendelin'
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "wendelin.py", line 39, in <module>
        __import__('pkg_resources').declare_namespace(__name__)
      File "/home/kirr/src/wendelin/venv/z+numpy.v2/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2081, in declare_namespace
        _handle_ns(packageName, path_item)
      File "/home/kirr/src/wendelin/venv/z+numpy.v2/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2026, in _handle_ns
        _rebuild_mod_path(path, packageName, module)
      File "/home/kirr/src/wendelin/venv/z+numpy.v2/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2050, in _rebuild_mod_path
        orig_path.sort(key=position_in_sys_path)
      File "/home/kirr/src/wendelin/venv/z+numpy.v2/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2045, in position_in_sys_path
        return sys_path.index(_normalize_cached(os.sep.join(parts)))
    ValueError: '/home/kirr/tmp/trashme' is not in list

Here wendelin.py added /home/kirr/tmp/trashme/wendelin.core to .__path__ and
setuptools' _handle_ns() wants to order that dir's parent in correspondence
with sys.path, but parent path is not there - oops.

We can workaround the problem, by first not initializing .__path__ and letting

    __import__('pkg_resources').declare_namespace(__name__)

fully handle and initialize it, and only after it is done we make the
correction for wendelin modules located not under .../wendelin.core/wendelin/
but under .../wendelin.core/ .

Importing was tested to work with the fix with both setuptools 20.6.7 and older
setuptools 17.1.1, i.e. here we should not be breaking backward compatibility.

/reported-by @tatuya, @Camata, @Tyagov