[Python-Dev] Namespaces (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Mon, 08 Apr 2002 14:00:55 +1200 (NZST)

barry@zope.com (Barry A. Warsaw):

I'd say that a binding operation is that which binds an object to a name in a particular namespace. But I'd want to prefix the term "namespace" with an adjective to be precise. An object's attribute namespace, a module's namespace, etc.

What about elements of a list? Calling them a "list namespace" would be rather confusing...

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