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

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:34:30 -0700
Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> FWIW, it wasn't that big (approx 2500 lines).
> The argparse, difflib, doctest, pickletools, pydoc, tarfile modules
> are about the same size and the decimal module is even larger.  
> Please don't split those.

I think it comes down to the preference of whoever works the most
actively on it. Michael is the most active contributor to unittest by
far, and I suppose he prefers it to be split into several submodules.

Regards

Antoine.