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

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Thu Mar 30 01:31:33 CEST 2006

On 3/29/06, Anthony Baxter <anthony at interlink.com.au> wrote:

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?

Yes, it's to make it obvious the module came from the stdlib instead of another package.

Doesn't the absolute/relative import PEP solve this problem?

Basically, but I think it wouldn't hurt to have a specific package name for the stdlib for in-code documenting instead of thinking that perhaps someone just stuck a module directly on sys.path .

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

Not much. =) It would import the top-level of a bunch of subpackages which will most likely not get you to a module, class, or function and thus couldn't be used to resolve to anything.

-Brett

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