On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Gael Varoquaux <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 03:52:48PM -0500, Mark Wiebe wrote:
> >    Can't use numpy.datetime, since that conflicts with Python's datetime
> >    library, especially in pylab.
>
> I don't understand that: isn't the point of namespaces to avoid those
> naming conflicts. To me that's just like saying that numpy.sum shouldn't
> be named sum because it would conflict with the sum builtin.
>
>
It's just asking for import problems and general confusion to shadow a
Python module, that's why we renamed io to npyio.

I'm curious as to what would be in the module.

My 2 euro cents (a endangered currency)
>
>
Aren't they all?

Chuck
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