[stdlib-sig] new package idea: zip

[Antoine Pitrou]

Le dimanche 09 mars 2008 à 15:13 -0700, Brett Cannon a écrit :
> We have to files related to zip files: zipfile and zipimport. Should
> we bother to consolidate? The problem is the obvious names conflict
> with built-in type  and a keyword, respectively. A possibility is:
> 
> zipfile -> zip.filer
> zipimport -> zip.importer
> 
> But I don't know if that is really an improvement. What do other people think?

I don't see the point since the functionality is so different (and I
don't think zipimport in used in much application-level code). Also,
"filer" sounds horrible.