[Web-SIG] Random thoughts

[Anthony Baxter]

>>> Greg Stein wrote
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 09:51:17PM -0500, Greg Ward wrote:
> > I'm just catching up on the archive for this list.  Some random
> > thoughts:
> > 
> >   * a new package, 'web', is definitely in order.
> >     "from web import cookies", "from web import http" just sounds right.
> >     (That contradicts Greg Stein's proposal in PEP 267, but I assume
> >     he's not strongly wedded to that.)
> 
> Correct. The name isn't the important part of the PEP. That said, "web" is
> a big misnomer for [package containing] an http client library, but that's
> a bikeshed of an entirely different color :-)


Wouldn't it be better to have something more like:

web/
   client.py
   cgi.py
   server.py

.. and the like? web.http seems so very redundant, web.client seems more
meaningful.



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Anthony Baxter     <anthony at interlink.com.au>   
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.