Argh! Name collision!

[Alf P. Steinbach /Usenet]

Donald Knuth once remarked (I think it was him) that what matters for a program 
is the name, and that he'd come up with a really good name, now all he'd had to 
do was figure out what it should be all about.

And so considering Sturla Molden's recent posting about unavailability of MSVC 
9.0 (aka Visual C++ 2008) for creating Python extensions in Windows, and my 
unimaginative reply proposing names like "pni" and "pynacoin" for a compiler 
independent Python native code interface, suddenly, as if out of thin air, or 
perhaps out of fish pudding, the name "pyni" occurred to me.

"pyni"! Pronounced like "tiny"! Yay!

I sat down and made my first Python extension module, following the tutorial in 
the docs. It worked!

But, wait, perhaps some other extension is already named "piny"?

Google.

<url: http://code.google.com/p/pyni/>, "PyNI is [a] config file reader/writer".

Argh!


- Alf

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