[C++-sig] Re: Re: Re: sub module support in V2

[Dave Hawkes]

My own need for sub-modules is to facilitate embedding python in a somewhat
large application (750,000 lines +) without a myriad of extension dlls to
group the various pieces of the applications functionality I want to expose
to python.

Dave Hawkes


"David Abrahams" <david.abrahams at rcn.com> wrote in message
news:21d401c20e68$ab5ef570$6601a8c0 at boostconsulting.com...
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "holger krekel" <pyth at devel.trillke.net>
> To: <c++-sig at python.org>
> Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 5:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [C++-sig] Re: Re: sub module support in V2
>
>
> > Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve wrote:
> > > Interesting discussion. I am still wondering, though, why support for
> > > sub-modules is important. What can be done with sub-modules that
cannot
> be done
> > > within the framework of a regular Python package?
> >
> > IMO submodules allow nice grouping of related classes/functions internal
> > to a module. Isn't this question semantically similar to the question of
> > why to have namespaces like ns1::subns:anothersubns... in C++?
>
> Sure, but you can do that with packages and separately-compiled extension
> modules for each submodule. Is there some great advantage to being able to
> compile a bunch of submodules into a single object?
>
> > Just wondering,
> >
> >     holger
>
>
> me-too-ly y'rs,
> dave