[Python-Dev] shal we redefine "module" and "package"?
Oleg Broytmann
phd at phd.pp.ru
Thu May 1 00:36:28 CEST 2008
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 04:21:13PM -0600, zooko wrote:
> so perhaps instead the implementors should start using the
> terminology understood by the programmers:
>
> 1. A "module" shall henceforth be the name for either a foo.py file
> (a single-file module), or a directory with an __init__.py in it (a
> directory module).
>
> 2. A "package" shall henceforth be the name of the thing that is
> currently called a "distribution".
And while we are at it, I'd like to propose to rename the very language
because everybody knows that python is a huge four-legged poisonous lizard.
(Sorry for being so poisonously [pythonic?] sarcastic. Just cannot resist.)
Oleg.
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Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.
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