[Python-ideas] Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!

[Adam Olsen]

[bah.  Resending to the list this time.]

On Feb 1, 2008 11:41 PM, Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve <rwgk at yahoo.com> wrote:

> PLEASE GIVE THE PYTHON 3 EXECUTABLE A DIFFERENT NAME AND THE SCRIPTS
> A DIFFERENT EXTENSION.

We're already have half of that:

$ python2.1 -V
Python 2.1.3+
$ python2.2 -V
Python 2.2.3+
$ python2.3 -V
Python 2.3.5
$ python2.4 -V
Python 2.4.4
$ python2.5 -V
Python 2.5.1

They also have often broken python code that depended on one or two
small details, and we haven't needed a new extension before.

Now it's true that py3k will break much more than before, but I still
don't see the need to differentiate based on extension.  Installed
libraries have the version in the directory name and installed
programs should specify a version in their shebang.

The *only* issue I see is that, if you run the 2to3 tool on your
2.6-targetted codebase, it needs to output into a different directory
so that you can distinguish them.  That's so trivial that I question
even mentioning it though.

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Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus