[Python-Dev] pep-3108.txt (original) (raw)

M.-A. Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Wed Jan 3 00:02:50 CET 2007

On 2007-01-02 23:54, Brett Cannon wrote:

On 1/2/07, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:

On 2007-01-02 01:02, brett.cannon wrote: > Author: brett.cannon > Date: Tue Jan 2 01:02:41 2007 > New Revision: 53204 > > Added: > peps/trunk/pep-3108.txt (contents, props changed) > Modified: > peps/trunk/pep-0000.txt > Log: > Add PEP 3108: Standard Library Reorganization. > >... > > +Open Issues > +=========== > + > +Consolidate dependent modules together into a single module or package? > ... > +Consolidate certain modules with similar themes together in a package? > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ... If you do follow this route, please take the chance to place the whole Python stdlib under a single package. That way we'll avoid name clashes with existing packages and modules now and in the future. That has been suggested before (including by me) and Guido has always shot it down. That's why I left it out of this proposal.

Even if it is shot down again, it still deserves to be documented together with the reasons for being shot down.

This is a one-in-a-lifetime chance, so it would be sad if it were not taken into account.

The extra effort would be minimal - the renaming would have to be done using a script anyway and adding an extra 'from py import ' prefix to the modules wouldn't really make the renaming more complicated ;-)

Together with absolute imports this also improves the readability

of modules since it becomes immediately clear where the imported code is coming from.

Note that as side-effect of this it becomes a lot harder to manipulate PYTHONPATH to trick Python into loading a standard module from a non-standard location, improving security and robustness of the Python installations.

-- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com

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