Github user dorx commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1628#issuecomment-50525518
In NumPy's source, they had a directory named random:
https://github.com/numpy/numpy/tree/master/numpy/random
It seems like having directory hierarchy is the only way to organize
packages:
https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/modules.html#packages
In the flat structure that we have right now, naming a file random.py would
override the python random package. We could either break the flat structure we
currently have, rename the package to something else in Scala (although I don't
know what's a good alternative), or let it be named something other than
random. I'm okay with any of these options.
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