[Python-Dev] python package

[Guido van Rossum]

I have thought some more about the idea of moving the entire stdlib
into a package named "python" and I reject the idea.

Think of the impact the change would have on the tutorial.

Think of the amount of needless changes to perfectly working code it
would entail.

If you want to avoid 3rd party module/package names to be invalidated
by additions to the standard library, you might just as well introduce
a "nonstd" package into which all 3rd party extensions must be placed.
This at least doesn't require people who don't use 3rd party code to
change their programs.

Maybe we should create a standard package hierarchy; Eric Raymond once
started working on such a proposal but I have discouraged him because
I think it would cause too much upheaval.  But for Python 3 I would
consider it.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)