<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 06:55, Nick Coghlan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ncoghlan@gmail.com">ncoghlan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Steve Holden wrote:<br>
> Why not just put a section in both places that says "can't be bothered<br>
> to spell this out right now" and put a URL in referring to this thread<br>
> on Google ... that appears to have been the traditional approach to<br>
> import semantics :)<br>
<br>
</div>Well, first we point to Guido's original package essay, then to PEP 302,<br>
then to PEP 338, then to PEP 366... and then we count the number of<br>
people that slogged through all that without needing to take our shoes<br>
off :)<br>
</blockquote><div><br>The See Also section in importlib probably has the most links of any other module in the stdlib.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>
On a more helpful note, Brett, you may find the write-up I did of the<br>
import system a year or two ago helpful:<br>
<a href="http://svn.python.org/view/sandbox/trunk/userref/ODF/Chapter07_ModulesAndApplications.odt?view=log" target="_blank">http://svn.python.org/view/sandbox/trunk/userref/ODF/Chapter07_ModulesAndApplications.odt?view=log</a><br>
<br>
(some parts are a little dated now obviously, but you may still find it<br>
better than starting with a blank page)<br>
</blockquote><div><br>I'll have a look.<br><br>-Brett <br></div></div><br>