[Python-3000] [Python-Dev] dbm.sqlite

[Guido van Rossum]

2008/9/10 Fred Drake <fdrake at acm.org>:
> On Sep 10, 2008, at 5:23 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>> I actually find it helpful to have the PyPI packages that ended up in
>> the stdlib use different names, since that opens up the possibility
>> to use the more current releases from PyPI in an application.
>
> I'm with Marc-Andre on this; using the same module names for different
codebases is a pain.  The standard library and the rest of the Python world
shouldn't overlap module names (this is part of why many have requested a
separate namespace for the Python standard library).

+1.

Remember the xml / _xmlplus debacle?

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