[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] stdlib reorganization (original) (raw)

Talin talin at acm.org
Wed May 31 08:46:06 CEST 2006

A.M. Kuchling wrote:

On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 03:36:02PM -0600, Steven Bethard wrote:

That sounds about reasonable. One possible grouping: Note that 2.5's library reference has a different chapter organization from 2.4's. See <http://docs.python.org/dev/lib/lib.html>.

I like it. Its a much cleaner organization than the 2.4 libs. I would like to see it used as a starting point for a reorg of the standard lib namespace.

One question that is raised is whether the categories should map directly to package names in all cases. For example, I can envision a desire that 'sys' would stay a top-level name, rather than 'rt.sys'. Certain modules are so fundamental that they deserve IMHO to live in the root namespace.

-- Talin

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