[Web-SIG] Random thoughts

[David Fraser]

Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy wrote:

>On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Greg Ward wrote:
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>>(BTW, whoever said that "web.client" and "web.server" are better names
>>than "web.http" is right.  I think.  So far I've agreed with every idea
>>I've seen on this sig, including the mutually contradicting ones.  ;-)
>>    
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>A sidenote on this - lower case common words do not make good module names
>because they are too easily overshadowed (mistakenly) by local variables.
>
>E.g.:
>
>from web import cookie
>
>[ blah blah ]
>
>   cookie = request.get_cookie()
>
>   [oops, the cookie module just got inaccessible, must use kookie
>    or something ungly like this]
>
>I think the best solution is to use upper case for module names like
>"Cookie", "HTTP", "Client", etc.
>
>Grisha
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But lower case names for packages ("web.Cookie")?

David