[IPython-dev] Flat is better than nested

Carlos Córdoba ccordoba12 at gmail.com
Sun May 19 13:19:30 EDT 2013


Hi Fernando,

I'll talk to Pierre and the other members of our team to see if we can 
come up with a sensible PR. Just adding _all__ would be a real gain for us.

Cheers,
Carlos

El 17/05/13 17:16, Fernando Perez escribió:
> Hi Carlos,
>
> On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Carlos Córdoba <ccordoba12 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ok, thanks for the answer, that makes more sense (although I don't agree
>> with making such changes so far ahead in time).
>>
>> But what about my proposal of an __all__ attribute? That would make
>> IPython consumer lives much easier and pleasant.
> Yes, that's something we actually need to work on and that's been on
> my radar for a long time: exposing for some of the main packages a bit
> of interface in the main __init__ file.
>
> BTW, it's worth noting that the Qt code in IPython is very much in
> need of engineering love... You guys and Enthought are the main
> stakeholders in there, but there's not a ton of activity.
>
> The reality is that it's a bit of a liability to have a complex code
> like that where the most active core IPython team isn't really using
> it.  So if you see architectural cleanups that you can make, by all
> means dig into the code.  I'm sure things will be better for everyone
> involved if that part of the code gains some more active
> maintainership.
>
> Cheers,
>
> f
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