[Python-Dev] Autoloading? (Making Queue.Queue easier to use) (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Oct 13 20:37:34 CEST 2005

On 10/13/05, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:

Guido van Rossum wrote:

> BTW, Queue.Queue violates a recent module naming standard; it is now > considered bad style to name the class and the module the same. > Modules and packages should have short all-lowercase names, classes > should be CapWords. Even the same but different case is bad style. unfortunately, this standard seem to result in generic "spamtools" modules into which people throw everything that's even remotely related to "spam", followed by complaints about bloat and performance from users, followed by various more or less stupid attempts to implement lazy loading of hidden in- ternal modules, followed by more complaints from users who no longer has a clear view of what's really going on in there... I think I'll stick to the old standard for a few more years...

Yeah, until you've learned to use packages. :(

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