+
+# Previous versions of the PySDK used to say `from .api import api`. This
+# made it convenient to call the API client constructor, but difficult to
+# access the rest of the `arvados.api` module. The magic below fixes that
+# bug while retaining backwards compatibility: `arvados.api` is now the
+# module and you can import it normally, but we make that module callable so
+# all the existing code that says `arvados.api('v1', ...)` still works.
+class _CallableAPIModule(api.__class__):
+ __call__ = staticmethod(api.api)
+api.__class__ = _CallableAPIModule