[Python-Dev] On breaking modules into packages (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Wed Nov 3 15:54:33 CET 2010

On Nov 03, 2010, at 11:06 AM, Ben Finney wrote:

Is this a case where it would be better if the package names had the leading underscore: ‘utils’, ‘suite’, etc.?

Does the convention on single-leading-underscore identifiers as “don't rely on this name staying the same in future versions” hold for package names?

I would vote "yes". I have seen more and more packages use this convention to signal that the module name is not intended to be imported directly. This should be part of any PEP 8 recommendation, IMO.

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