[Python-Dev] package reorg in 1.6 (was: concrete proposal)

[Paul Prescod]

Greg Stein wrote:
> 
> Even if we don't "complete the move", then we've still *improved* the
> situation.

I feel like the reorg is more likely to get done if we do it as we can
rather than waiting for someone to come along and do everything at once.
The standard library already feels so "messy" to me that I don't think
that use of packages in one place and not in another will confuse
anyone.

On the other hand, maybe we should only packagize things when we are
also going to make sure that they make sense as a collective. For
instance I would resist packaging binhex, uu, and binascii while they
have radically different interfaces. I will leave it up to those more in
the know to decide whether the "network" package would be coherent or
just a bag of related but not really integrated modules. A brief perusal
suggests that there is no such thing as a Gopher class (but then who
cares!). And should urlparse be part of urllib? etc.

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