[Python-Dev] pep-0557 dataclasses top level module vs part of collections?

[Eric Snow]

On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Gregory P. Smith <greg at krypto.org> wrote:
> It seems a suggested use is "from dataclasses import dataclass"
>
> But people are already familiar with "from collections import namedtuple"
> which suggests to me that "from collections import dataclass" would be a
> more natural sounding API addition.

FWIW, I'd consider this a good time to add a new top-level
classtools/classutils module (a la functools).  There are plenty of
other things that would fit there that we've shoved into other places.

-eric