[Python-Dev] python package

[Tim Peters]

[Michael McLay]
> ...
> I had also read the following message and made the unfortunate
> assumption that you were proposing "new" as the name of a new top level
> module to contain all the standard python modules.

Note that "new" is already the name of a top-level module, and has been for
years.  That other thread was about drawing useless distinctions between the
already-existing "new" and "types" modules with respect to where to house
new type names that nobody needs <0.9 wink>.