Argh! Name collision!

[Shashwat Anand]

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Richard Thomas <chardster at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jul 7, 3:11 am, "Alf P. Steinbach /Usenet" <alf.p.steinbach
> +use... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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
> >
> > --
> > blog at <url:http://alfps.wordpress.com>
>
> PyNI seems to perform the same function as ConfigParser. I prefer the
> pronunciation like tiny to Py-N-I. The latter seems clunky.
>
> On a possibly related note I was disappointed to discover that
> Python's QT bindings are called PyQT not QTPy. :-)
>

Isn't this the standard.
Qt -> PyQt
crypto -> pycrypto
MT -> PyMT
.....
and the list goes on and on .. :)

~l0nwlf
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