[stdlib-sig] Choosing a name for simplejson

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 2008-04-11 11:56, Christian Heimes wrote:
> M.-A. Lemburg schrieb:
>> In my experience, Guido has shown that he doesn't get convinced by
>> someone pointing him at a problem - he has to run into the problem
>> himself.
>>
>> Now, Python is a community project and its user set is very diverse,
>> so I'd like to see what the community thinks. If there's a tie, Guido
>> can break it, but I don't really see why he should be the only one
>> who's being asked.
> 
> We had the discussion on the Python general list a while ago. Guido and
> several other developers were against Java-like namespace packages for
> the stdlib.

We've had such discussions on and off several times during the past
8-10 years. So far, the only arguments against moving the whole
Python std lib under a single package (without deeper nesting)
were the following:

  * too much to write

  * hard to change all the code out there

Now that we're going for a transition from 2.x to 3.x, the
second argument no longer applies. 2to3.py can easily change
the imports as necessary (just like it will for the stdlib
reorg in general).

The first argument is not really a strong one, but more a personal
preference. Using a Python package will make it easier for IDEs
to provide auto-complete, so over time

On the plus side, we would finally have the freedom to choose
any generic name we like for Python modules - without causing
problems with existing code outside the std lib, e.g. all
the *lib modules could have the "lib" removed.

And you can finally see whether a module came from the
Python std lib or some other source right in the source
file. Accidental sys.path overrides will no longer happen.

If I've missed any arguments against the py-package idea,
please let me know.

Thanks,
-- 
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