[Python-Dev] PEP czar for PEP 3144? (original) (raw)

Dirkjan Ochtman dirkjan at ochtman.nl
Mon Feb 20 19:06:23 CET 2012

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 16:27, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

Should it be net.ipaddress instead of just ipaddress?

Somewhat nested is better than fully flat. IMHO, nesting without a good, consistent, systematic categorization leads to very unpleasant results (e.g. "from urllib.request import urlopen"). Historically, our stdlib has been flat and I think it should stay so, short of redoing the whole hierarchy. (note this has nothing to do with the possible implementation of modules as packages, such as unittest or importlib)

I thought Python 3 already came with a net package, but apparently that plan has long been discarded. So I retract my suggestion.

Cheers,

Dirkjan

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