[Python-Dev] python 2.5alpha and naming schemes (original) (raw)

Gregory P. Smith greg at electricrain.com
Fri Apr 21 03:00:49 CEST 2006


Module names like hashlib are not python-like too (too c/lowlevel-like).

what is python-like?

hashlib was chosen because it is a library of hash functions and hash() is already taken as a builtin function (otherwise i'd leave off the lib).

-g



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