[Web-SIG] Random thoughts

[Anthony Baxter]

>>> "Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy" wrote
> 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.

I disagree - first off, case sensitivity differs on Unix and non-Unix
platforms. Secondly, this is a new package, so it's not like we have to
worry about existing codebases. If a user does this, they'll figure it
out pretty quickly.

Anthony

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