[IPython-dev] Flat is better than nested
Carlos Córdoba
ccordoba12 at gmail.com
Fri May 17 12:19:47 EDT 2013
I agree with Stéfan: removing "frontend" isn't much of a help, because
it has a compelling and easy meaning to grasp.
For us in Spyder it would be better to be able to import things like
RichIPythonWidget as
from IPython.frontend.qt import RichIPythonWidget
instead of
from IPython.qt.console.rich_ipython_widget import RichIPythonWidget
because even without "frontend" there are four levels of nested modules
to reach one of the most essential pieces of that frontend.
So why not add an __all__ attribute to each frontend instead?
Cheers,
Carlos
El 17/05/13 02:44, Stéfan van der Walt escribió:
> On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 2:51 AM, Brian Granger <ellisonbg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> During that discussion we ended up talking about the deep nesting that
>> we have in IPython.frontend
>>
>> Deep inside the notebook frontend, we end up with imports of the sort:
>>
>> IPython.frontend.html.notebook.handlers
>>
>> The qt frontend has similarly deep nesting.
>>
>> To solve this problem, we decided to flatten this out a bit. Here is
>> what we decided:
>>
>> IPython.frontend.qt -> IPython.qt
>> IPython.frontend.html.notebook -> IPython.html
>> IPython.frontend.terminal -> IPython.terminal
> That seems like a minor saving when measured against the loss of
> structure. When I see "ipython.frontend.qt" I know exactly what you
> mean, whereas "IPython.qt" doesn't evoke anything specific. Isn't the
> nesting problem rather deeper down, i.e. under qt, html and terminal?
>
> Stéfan
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