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

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Antoine Pitrou writes:

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

"import bp" where ./bp.py contains the "boilerplate" imports you need
for this particular application is always available, though.  If
that's not worth doing, then the burden of typing a few long names is
rather small.  So the typing argument simply doesn't apply to module
names.