[Python-Dev] Re: Christmas Wishlist (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at iinet.net.au
Thu Dec 18 05:42:02 EST 2003

Barry Warsaw wrote:

On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 05:32, Nick Coghlan wrote:

[snip description of potential naming conflicts] Has this ever happened to you in practice?

Well, no. But others seemed concerned about it, so I thought I'd try to clarify the problem - the scripts I write don't need anything more than the standard library and win32all.

It seems like the way out would be to start adopting a Java-like convention for package names. The problem with that in current Python is that you can't (easily) weave a package's contents from different locations in the file system.

I still like the various suggestions for giving those parts of the system special names. That's what I was trying for, even if the names I chame up with weren't any good.

Cheers, Nick.

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