[Python-Dev] (class) module names clarification (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Mar 18 20:33:16 EST 2004

"Jewett, Jim J" <jim.jewett at eds.com>:

The whole point of StringIO is its class. So if it were rewritten in modern style, a user would write:

from userlist import UserList from stringio import StringIO

That's actually an excellent argument for this convention. It neatly solves the problem of having a module name the same as a class defined within it.

It would have been good to have socket.Socket, too.

Maybe alternative names could be provided for these, with the intention of phasing out use of the old names?

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