[Python-ideas] Renaming the "test" package

Chris Rebert pyideas at rebertia.com
Sun Nov 6 10:16:02 CET 2011


On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 1:56 AM, Yuval Greenfield <ubershmekel at gmail.com> wrote:
> For python4, the "test" package should actually be named
> __pythontest__ or something similar. There are 2 million results for
> ""test.py"" on google.

I don't get what problem you're suggesting there is that such a rename
would solve.
Python has these honking great things called namespaces (in this case,
packages); they make the existence of multiple Python files with the
same name a non-issue (just don't use non-absolute imports).

Cheers,
Chris
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