[Python-3000] [Python-ideas] Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!

[Georg Brandl]

Guido van Rossum schrieb:
> This should be brought up on the python-3000 list; I'm moving it there
> using a Bcc to python-ideas.
> 
> To some extent it is up to the vendors who distribute binaries -- they
> decide what to call it.
> 
> Perhaps we should only install "python3.0" and not "python". That is a
> valid choice already and always has been (python2.1, python2.2, etc.
> are always installed by default, "python" is just a convenient alias).
> 
> I think that worries about Python becoming the laughingstock of the
> language world are highly exaggerated. The post you refer to sounds to
> me like the typical cynical one-liner from someone who doesn't really
> care, not about a position of someone who is influential in the world
> of language users.

I would prefer a "python3" alias analogous to the current "python" alias,
at least as long as Python 2.x is still in wide use.

Having to type "python3.0" explicitly strikes me as unnecessarily verbose.

As for module file name extensions, what speaks against allowing (not
mandating) "py3" for Python 3.x modules?

 > PS. Java is the VB of this decare.

Had a close encounter with Java recently? :)

Georg

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