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

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Fri Oct 14 07:34:50 CEST 2005

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. :(

what does packages has to do with this ? does this new module naming standard only apply to toplevel package names ?

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