March 10, 2008
12:19 a.m.
On Mar 9, 2008, at 8:13 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:
Problem with that is it goes against name simplification; 'socket.socket' is not as simple as 'socket'. So why do the two of you think this is better than just importing 'socket'?
With the proposal, you still just import socket, but the implementation for the names in socket is in socket.socket. The motivation is more of a pattern that I've seen work well in practice: __init__.py is pretty minimal, and the implementations are all in "normal" modules with package.module names. The real advantage is that all real code is in a file with a descriptive name; __init__ doesn't describe package contents, but package initialization. -Fred -- Fred Drake <fdrake at acm.org>