[Python-Dev] [Tutor] nice() (original) (raw)

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at freenet.co.uk
Mon Feb 13 01:35:16 CET 2006

However I do dislike the name nice() - there is already a nice() in the os module with a fairly well understood function. But I'm sure some

Presumably it would be located somewhere like the math module.

For sure, but let's avoid as many name clashes as we can. Python is very good at managing namespaces but there are still a lot of folks who favour the

from x import *

mode of working.

Alan G.

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