[Python-Dev] On breaking modules into packages Was: [issue10199] Move Demo/turtle under Lib/

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue Nov 2 23:33:28 CET 2010


On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> So basically it seems like we have learned a lesson: we prefer to have
> our code structured in files that match the public API. I think that
> is a legitimate design rule for the stdlib to follow from now on, but
> in the case of unittest it's too late to change it back (and it's a
> minor price to pay to learn this lesson and to have Michael
> maintaining unittest like he has been, plus we could consider using
> the new structure so that the public API matches the file structure
> when the need arises).

Something to note in PEP 8, perhaps?

Cheers,
Nick.

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