[Python-Dev] Extensible library packages

Peter Funk pf@artcom-gmbh.de
Wed, 12 Apr 2000 07:43:59 +0200 (MEST)


Hi!

Andrew M. Kuchling:
[...]
> The problem is that, if the Python standard library includes a package
> named 'xml', ...
[...]
> Can anyone suggest a good solution?  Fixing this may not require
> changing the core in any way, but the cleanest solution isn't obvious.

I dislike the idea of having user visible packages in the standard 
library too.  

As Fredrik already suggested, putting a file 'saxlib.py' into the lib,
which exposes all what a user needs to know about 'sax' seems to be the 
best solution.

Regards, Peter