On 3/29/06, Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? <wink> > > 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 _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com