> > > > And I guess this is subjective: conversely, the API you're proposing > > > doesn't feel Pythonic to me. :-) I'd like the hear the opinion of > other > > > python-dev readers. > > > > I agree with Mark: the proposed median, median.low, etc., doesn't feel > > right. Is there any example of doing this in the stdlib? I suggest just > > median(), median_low(), etc. > > I too prefer the median_low naming rather than median.low. I'm not > sure I can articulate why, but certainly the fact that that latter > isn't used anywhere else in the stdlib that I can think of is > probably a lot of it :) > > Perhaps the underlying thought is that we don't use classes pure > function namespaces: we expect classes to be something more than > that. >
Certainly. Python does not force the "everything is a class" philosophy of Java and Ruby. Classes have their uses, but namespacing isn't it. There are modules for namespaces. Eli
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