[stdlib-sig] new package idea: zip

[Brett Cannon]

On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Alexandre Vassalotti
<alexandre at peadrop.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>  > 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 think it's an improvement either.

OK. It was a shot in the dark anyway. It was the only other package
idea I could think of that had any form of a chance of working.

-Brett