Classes as namespaces?

[Philip Semanchuk]

On Mar 26, 2010, at 1:51 PM, kj wrote:

> Thanks for all your comments.
>
> I see that modules are arguably Python's standard way for implementing
> namespaces.  I guess I tend to avoid modules primarily because of
> lingering mental trauma over incidents of insane/bizarro import
> bugs in the past.

There can be good reasons (i.e. unrelated to trauma) not to use a one- 
namespace-per-module rule.

For instance, The app I'm working on now has 43 classes defined in a  
constants.py file. Each class is just a namespace for constants.  
That's much more practical than 43 modules called foo_constants.py,  
bar_constants.py, etc.

My Currency(type=CurrencyType.USD, value=decimal.Decimal(".02")),
Philip