What's the use of module spaces? (was Re: Circular Inheritance)

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.1057124943.21695.python-list at python.org>,
Ian Bicking  <ianb at colorstudy.com> wrote:
>
>You might encounter less problems if those classes go together in a
>single module, but module boundaries are just there to help the
>programmer organize code, they have little formal meaning.

That's not true.  Modules define a namespace, and Python's execution
model makes heavy use of the "global" (read, current module's) namespace
for name resolution.
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