[Python-Dev] davlib.py

[M.-A. Lemburg]

"Fred L. Drake, Jr." wrote:
> 
> Moshe Zadka writes:
>  > While I do enjoy having all this stuff with the core distribution, I have
>  > one nit to pick. (Relevant more to 1.7 then 1.6, but worth keeping in
>  > mind). Can we please, pretty please with cream on top, start using
> 
>   I think this is really a matter for Py3K; the 1.x series has a lot
> of backward-compatibility issues.  There's no need to move things to
> packages if the old names are still supported; that just increases the
> clutter (all the old names *plus* the new packages).
>   Until the library is reorganized into packages, there's no need to
> change the structural approach, since the re-organization will break
> lots of code anyway.
> 
>  > packages in the standard distribution? We can do it backwards compatibly,
>  > with something like
>  >
>  > internet/
>  >     protocol/
>  >         httplib.py
> 
>   I wouldn't make it so deep; perhaps internet/httplib, but that's it.

Python 1.6 will start using packages in the core... the
Unicode patches add an "encodings" package.
 
>  > Put new stuff only in packages, and that way we could have a large
>  > distribution, without a lot of top-level name clutter.
> 
>   The XML stuff will be in the xml package; this matches what the
> XML-SIG has been doing all along.

"mx" is also taken -- its just that nobody knows yet :-)

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