[Python-Dev] PEP 292 for Python 2.4 (original) (raw)

François Pinard pinard at iro.umontreal.ca
Tue Jul 13 15:04:39 CEST 2004

[Aahz]

[Raymond Hettinger]

> Please do give consideration to putting all of this in a single > module. IMO, this is too small of an addition to warrant splitting > everything in to packages (which make it more difficult to > understand and maintain as a collective unit).

That's true. However, there has been a regular low-level discussion about creating a text package; why not simply name it string?

Please do not use, as package names, identifiers that users would likely want to keep for themselves. text' and string' are bad ideas for package names. `stringlib' seems much more likely do not hurt people.

I know that string' and socket' exist, despite string' is evanescent, but they surely forced users at choosing other identifiers where string' and socket' would have been perfect. It is very good news that, now in Python 2.3, string' is unneeded most of times. Let us not repeat previous mistakes, or even nail them further by trying to be compatible with them.

-- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard

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