[Python-Dev] PEP 376

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Jun 24 11:18:35 CEST 2009


Sridhar Ratnakumar <sridharr <at> activestate.com> writes:
> 
> On 09-06-23 02:57 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> > Something like DistributionDirectoryMap should cover it.
> >
> > You could probably get away with shortening "Directory" to "Dir" in the
> > class names though:
> >
> >   - Distribution
> >   - ZippedDistribution
> >   - DistributionDir
> >   - ZippedDistributionDir
> >   - DistributionDirMap
> 
> 'Map' reminds me of an associated hash (or is it the actual map?).

Good thing, because it is a dict subclass if you read the PEP :)

+1 with Nick's proposal.

(we are good at finding bikesheds everywhere aren't we?)




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