On 10/31/2015 7:07 PM, Brendan Barnwell wrote:
On 2015-10-31 15:45, Terry Reedy wrote:
Revised and reduced proposal: If other people would find it useful, add all_stdlib_toplevel_module_names - builtin_module_names to sys as something equivalent to .other_stdlib_module_names or .python_coded_module_names. Anyone wanting all_toplevel_module names could add the two. Or add the latter, and let others subtract.
One thing I've sometimes wondered about for Python 4000 is the idea of putting the whole standard library under a single top-level package (e.g., from stdlib import sys). This would be a big change but would reduce the surprises that can arise from stdlib modules named things like "string", "parser", etc. I see a brief mention of this in PEP 3108 but that's it. Was there more discussion of the idea?
It has been discussed and rejected by Guido. I think it would be more sensible to require 'from . import mymod' for local imports. -- Terry Jan Reedy