[Python-Dev] PEP 8 updates/clarifications (original) (raw)

Michael Hoffman hoffman at ebi.ac.uk
Tue Dec 13 16:25:24 CET 2005

[Jim Fulton]

Personally, I don't find the stdlib/external distinction to be useful.

[Michael Hoffman]

It's useful because it allows one to quickly see all the prerequisites need to be installed in one place.

[Jim Fulton]

Sure, if you only have one module, and if your module doesn't do any dynamic imports, and if the things your importing don't have dependencies, and ...

I think it would be simpler to have a formal dependency system.

More useful, yes, for all the reasons you listed. The fact that people are still working on a formal dependency system, however, indicates that it is not simpler.

Michael Hoffman <hoffman at ebi.ac.uk> European Bioinformatics Institute

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