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

[Michael Foord]

On 03/11/2010 14:05, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Raymond Hettinger
> <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Sounds like a decision to split a module into a package is a big commitment.  Each of the individual file names becomes a permanent part of the API.  Even future additional splits are precluded because it might break someones dotted import (i.e. not a single function can be moved between those files -- once in unittest.utils, alway in unittest.utils).
> Can Python 2.7 pickles containing unittest classes be unpickled using
> 2.6 or earlier? Even if nobody uses the new names for imports, I
> believe they implicitly end up included in any pickles involving
> affected classes (I seem to recall we've been bitten by that before
> when moving things around).

Yes, since unittest.TestCase is still available (as are all the names). 
I believe so anyway...

Michael

> Cheers,
> Nick.
>


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