On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 09:45 -0700, John Nagle wrote: > On 10/25/2010 6:34 AM, Alex Willmer wrote: > > On Oct 25, 11:07 am, kj<no.em...@please.post> wrote: > >> In "The Zen of Python", one of the "maxims" is "flat is better than > >> nested"? Why? Can anyone give me a concrete example that illustrates > >> this point? > > > > I take this as a reference to the layout of the Python standard > > library and other packages i.e. it's better to have a module hierarchy > > of depth 1 or 2 and many top level items, than a depth of 5+ and only > > a few top level items. > > > > For instance > > > > import re2 > > import sqlite3 > > import logging > > > > import something_thirdparty > > > > vs > > > > import java.util.regex > > import java.sql > > import java.util.logging > > As in > > Python 2: import urllib > Python 3: import urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error > > http://diveintopython3.org/porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html >
My favorite is always: from django.contrib.auth.models import User # I know, not std lib -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list