[Python-Dev] Great Renaming? What is the goal? (original) (raw)

Moshe Zadka Moshe Zadka mzadka@geocities.com
Mon, 27 Mar 2000 19:59:34 +0200 (IST)

Peter Funk said:

The library documentation provides a existing logical subdivision into chapters, which group the library into several kinds of services. IMO this subdivision could be discussed and possibly revised. But at the moment I got the impression, that it was simply ignored. Why? What's so bad with it?

Ka-Ping Yee writes:

I did look at the documentation for some guidance in arranging the modules, though admittedly it didn't direct me much.

Fred L. Drake, Jr. writes:

The library reference is pretty well disorganized at this point. I want to improve that for the 1.6 docs.

Let me just mention where my inspirations came from: shame of shames, it came from Perl. It's hard to use Perl's organization as is, because it doesn't (view itself) as a general purpose langauge: so things like CGI.pm are toplevel, and regex's are part of the syntax. However, there are a lot of good hints there.

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