[Python-Dev] On breaking modules into packages Was: [issue10199] Move Demo/turtle under Lib/ (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Oct 29 12:26:06 CEST 2010

While maintainers' convenience is a valid valid concern and some level of idiosyncrasy is healthy to allow active maintainers to code in their preferred style, I think users' convenience should come first when it conflicts with that of maintainers. Remember, code is written once and read many. This is particularly true about stdlib. A minor inconvenience of finding the right place to stick a new function in a large file does not in my view overweights a major inconvenience of not having all pieces in one place neatly organized in a linear order.

I agree. While investigating an incompatibility in unittest2, I found that the breakage into multiple files makes it much harder to find out how things fit together, and where specifically a certain functionality is implemented.

So join those who would have preferred this module to stay as a single 2000-line file.

Regards, Martin

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