On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Tres Seaver <tsea...@palladion.com> wrote: ... > I'm tempted to rename the 'DB.py' module 'db.py', and jam in a BBB entry > in sys.modules for 'ZODB.DB'; likewise, I am tempted to rename the > 'FileStorage.py' package 'filestorage', its same-named module > '_filestorage.py', and jam in BBB entries for the old names.
+.9 if done without backward-incompatiblke breakage. This would be a 4.1 thing. +1 if you used zodb.filestorage.filestorage rather than zodb.filestorage._filestorage. > Those renames would make the "preferred" API: > >>> from ZODB import DB # convenience alias for the class > >>> from ZODB import db # the moodule > >>> from ZODB.db import DB # my preferred speling > >>> from ZDOB.filestorage imoprt FileStorage # conv. alias for class > >>> from ZODB import filestorage # the package > >>> from ZODB.filestorage import FileStorage # my preferred speling This is the same as one earlier. I suspect you meant: >>> from ZODB.filestorage._filestorage import FileStorage but couldn't type the underware. I don't think the packagification of the FileStorage module was a win, but it's too hard to fix it now. Some day, I'd like to work on a filestorage2, but fear I won't ever find the time. :( > >>> from ZODB.filestorage import _filestorage # if needed We shouldn't design an API where we expected people to grab underware. Aside from not liking from imports and the _filestorage nit, +1 > For extra bonus fun, we could rename 'ZODB' to 'zodb' :) In that case, we might switch to a namespace package, oodb, which I've already reserved: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/oodb But I doubt we're up for this much disruption. Jim -- Jim Fulton http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton Jerky is better than bacon! http://zo.pe/Kqm _______________________________________________ For more information about ZODB, see http://zodb.org/ ZODB-Dev mailing list - ZODB-Dev@zope.org https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zodb-dev
