[Python-Dev] python package

[Gordon McMillan]

On 12 Jul 2002 at 16:46, Michael McLay wrote:

> ... it might be reasonable to move all standard
> distribution names into a single top level namespace
> and grandfather the existing top level names into
> the top level namespace for the remainder of
> the 2.x series. 

Getting
 from <toplevelname> import urllib
and 
 import urllib

to return the same (is, not equals) object will
require very delicate surgery on some very difficult
code. And without it, most non-trivial scripts will
break in very mysterious ways.

-- Gordon
http://www.mcmillan-inc.com/