Use company name for module

[Chris Withers]

On 12/11/2010 15:50, Robert Kern wrote:
> On 11/12/10 8:12 AM, Micah Carrick wrote:
>> My company is working on releasing some of our code as open-source python
>> modules. I don't want my "foo" module conflicting with other modules
>> called
>> "foo" on PyPi or github or a user's system. Is there anything wrong,
>> from a
>> conventions standpoint, with having modules like company.foo and
>> company.bar
>> even if foo and bar are not necessarily related other than being
>> released by us?
>> I really don't like the cryptic module names or things like foo2 and
>> the like.
>
> Yes, using namespace packages. You need to use `distribute` in your
> setup.py in order to accomplish this.
>
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/distribute/
> http://packages.python.org/distribute/setuptools.html#namespace-packages

...or setuptools.

...or just pick a different naming scheme, the Pyramid guys have gone for:

company_foo

...and I'm inclined to do the same.

Chris

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