[Python-Dev] PEP 3148 ready for pronouncement

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu May 27 05:21:14 CEST 2010


On 27/05/10 12:04, Jesse Noller wrote:

>> Namespaces are
>> only a honking great idea if you actually let them do the job
>> they're designed for.
>
> concurrent.* is the namespace, futures is the package within the
> namespace - concurrent.futures is highly descriptive of the items
> contained therein.

I was referring to the issue of ThreadPool vs. ThreadPoolExecutor
etc. By your own argument above, concurrent.futures.ThreadPool is
quite descriptive enough of what it provides. It's not a problem
if some other module also provides something called a ThreadPool.

-- 
Greg


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