[Python-3000] PEP 3138- String representation in Python 3000

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 2008-05-17 10:26, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Nick Coghlan wrote:
> 
>> Having to mess around with __import__ just to support a "choose 
>> compression method" configuration option would be fairly annoying.
> 
> Perhaps, but even then, I'm not sure it makes sense to
> lump them all into the same namespace.

Note that only the stdlib codecs are using one flat namespace.

Other codec packages may (and should) register their own codec
search functions and can then easily use other namespaces as well.

Think of the codec registry and access as a highly specialized
module import mechanism.

It is well possible to group codecs in packages and then access
them via their package name, e.g. 'compress.gzip'. However,
in practice, just writing 'gzip' is going to have enough
expressiveness to have a programmer understand what is
happening.

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