[Python-Dev] PEP 3148 ready for pronouncement

[Brian Quinlan]

On May 27, 2010, at 1:21 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:

> 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.


I think that the "Executor" suffix is a good indicator of the  
interface being provided. "Pool" is not because you can could have  
Executor implementations that don't involve pools.

Cheers,
Brian