[Python-Dev] On breaking modules into packages Was: [issue10199] Move Demo/turtle under Lib/

[Georg Brandl]

Am 03.11.2010 03:35, schrieb Antoine Pitrou:
> On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 19:57:48 -0700
> Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > How could we have split the module into a package in a way that matched the
>> > API, whilst still retaining backwards compatibility with the old API? We had
>> > no choice but to export the public names at the top level.
>> 
>> I'm not disagreeing with that. What I am saying is can now document
>> that it's unittest.case.TestCase instead of having that just be an
>> implementation detail.
> 
> -1.  unittest.TestCase is far simpler and more obvious that any
> javaesque qualified name.  urllib.request and friends are already
> annoying enough.

Agreed.  There are about 30 names importable from unittest, that is quite
manageable in a single namespace.

Georg

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