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

Giovanni Bajo rasky at develer.com
Thu Mar 30 01:53:59 CEST 2006

Anthony Baxter <anthony at interlink.com.au> wrote:

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?

I don't think so. For instance, if I have a package called "db" in my application (which I import with absolute imports from other packages), I might have problems with the newly added "db.sqlite" package in Python 2.5. In fact, I guess my "db" will shadow the stdlib one, making it impossible to access. An unique prefix for stdlib would solve this.

Giovanni Bajo

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