Re: [Python-Dev] module aliasing

2006-04-07 Thread Thomas Wouters
On 4/7/06, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It would be nice if this chain could instead be written as:   from stringio or cStringIO or StringIO import StringIOSimilar to PEP 341, this could be pure syntactic sugar, with the actualtry-except statements generated in the AST. It could, but it'

Re: [Python-Dev] module aliasing

2006-04-07 Thread Nick Coghlan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Modules should have short, lowercase names, without underscores. > >> > >> But if we don't start becoming stricter about the naming of things > >> added to the stdlib, consistency of naming is never going to improve. > >> > >> Or should this

[Python-Dev] module aliasing

2006-04-06 Thread skip
Modules should have short, lowercase names, without underscores. >> >> But if we don't start becoming stricter about the naming of things >> added to the stdlib, consistency of naming is never going to improve. >> >> Or should this wait for Py3k? aahz> For contr