morning in Python

Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch bj_666 at gmx.net
Sun May 18 05:31:54 EDT 2008


On Sun, 18 May 2008 11:15:06 +0200, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

>> Full day later, I think it, to emphasize state, would prioritize
>> context.  The reason for the huge ramble was, believe it or not,
>> namespace conflict... as though any other states around here might
>> nose in.
> 
> I think the namespace conflict is rather in cities than in states.
> For example, there are several cities called "Berlin", but only
> one state (that I know of) is called "Mecklenburg-Vorpommern".
> In some cases, prefixing helps, e.g. you don't call it "York"
> when that already exists, but "New York".

The state or the city "New York"!?  And wasn't the city object bound to
the name "New Amsterdam" once?  :-)

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch



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