[Python-ideas] Module name [was Re: Pre-PEP: adding a statistics module to Python]

[Antoine Pitrou]

Le Tue, 06 Aug 2013 17:36:19 +0200,
"M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at egenix.com> a écrit :
> >>
> >> Sure. I was thinking of the more exotic "futures" or often used
> >> terms such as "request" that can benefit from added context.
> > 
> > In that case, compound / abbreviated names can also be used
> > ("urllib", "httpreq"...). They also avoid the collision threat
> > nicely.
> 
> I think the world has changed since the days of 8.3 DOS names :-)
> 
> The typing argument is not all that important anymore
> when editors and interactive tools like ipython take care
> of most of the typing for you via auto completion.

ipython isn't available in every environment, and it's not in
everyone's taste either :-)

Editors are generally not that smart about auto-completion
either. Usually they will auto-complete names which are
already in the current file. IDEs with sophisticated Python
plugins may do better, but not everyone likes to use them.

Regards

Antoine.