[Python-Dev] On breaking modules into packages Was: [issue10199] Move Demo/turtle under Lib/ (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Oct 27 12:42:23 CEST 2010

On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 22:06:37 -0400 Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote:

While I appreciate your and Michael's eloquence, I don't really see why five 400-line modules are necessarily easier to maintain than one 2000-line module. Splitting code into modules is certainly a good thing when the resulting modules can be used independently. This helps users write leaner programs, reduces mental footprint of individual modules, etc, etc. The split unittest module does not bring any such benefits. It still presents a single "big-ball-of-mud" namespace, only rather than implemented in a single file, it is now swept in from eight different files.

Are you saying that it has become a pile of medium-sized balls of mud? I would like to say thanks for the mud, Michael! It's high quality mud for sure.

Regards

Antoine.

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