[Python-Dev] Discussing the Great Library Reorganization (original) (raw)

Anthony Baxter anthony at interlink.com.au
Thu Mar 30 01:21:57 CEST 2006

On Thursday 30 March 2006 08:39, Brett Cannon wrote:

Here is a place I think we can take a queue from Java. I think we should have a root package, 'py', and then have subpackages within that.

org.python.stdlib, surely?

I don't have a problem with reorganising the standard library, but what's the motivation for moving everything under a new root? Is it just to allow people to unambigiously get hold of something from the stdlib, rather than following the normal search path? Doesn't the absolute/relative import PEP solve this problem?

And what does 'from py import *' do, anyway?

Anthony

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