[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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     Oleg Broytmann            http://phd.pp.ru/            phd at phd.pp.ru
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