RE: [Python-Dev] Single .py file contains submodule?

[holger krekel]

I have been asking this myself, too. I definitely see an advantage beeing able to put modules and submodules in one file.

[Guido]

Trust me. Don't go there.

In Perl you spell this "package NAME;". All "dynamic" bindings from then until the next package statement (or end of enclosing block, etc -- it's Perl <wink>) then end up in the NAME namespace. This is also how you declare a class in Perl. This is what it leads to <wink>: If you have a package called m, s, or y, then you can't use the qualified form of an identifier because it would be instead interpreted as a pattern match, a substitution, or a transliteration.