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

Crutcher Dunnavant crutcher at gmail.com
Tue Feb 14 18:48:59 CET 2006

On 2/12/06, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at freenet.co.uk> wrote:

>> 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.

Yes, and there are people who insist on drinking and driving, that doesn't mean cars should be designed with that as a motivating assumption. There are just too many places where you are going to get name clashes, where something which is obvious in one context will have a different ( and obvious ) meaning in another. Lets just keep the namespaces clean, and not worry about inter-module conflicts.

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