26 May
2000
26 May
'00
1:50 a.m.
Greg, If you have to refer to it as a package (which I don't doubt), the correct name is definitely the "root package". A possible clarification of your glossary entry: \item[root package] the root of the hierarchy of packages. (This isn't really a package, since it doesn't have an \file{\_\_init\_\_.py} file. But we have to call it something.) The vast majority of the standard library is in the root package, as are many small, standalone third-party modules that don't belong to a larger module collection. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)