Namespaces are one honking great idea

[Kevin Conway]

I believe the namespace object you are referring to is exactly a class.
IIRC, classes came about as a "module in a module".

Regardless, all use cases you've listed are already satisfied by use of the
static and class method decorators. Methods decorated with these do not
require an instance initialization to use.

On Fri, Jul 1, 2016, 20:17 Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:

> On Sat, 2 Jul 2016 05:29 am, Ethan Furman wrote:
>
> > On 07/01/2016 10:10 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> >> On Sat, 2 Jul 2016 02:00 am, Ethan Furman wrote:
> >
> >>> Did you mean for this to go to -Ideas?
> >>
> >> Not yet. I wanted some initial feedback to see if anyone else liked the
> >> idea before taking it to Bikeshedding Central :-)
> >>
> >> Besides, I expect Python-Ideas will say it needs to be a package on PpPI
> >> first. Although I am kinda considering sneaking this into the std lib as
> >> an undocumented internal feature, like simplegeneric in pkgutil. (Don't
> >> tell anyone I said that *wink* )
> >
> > Are there good use-cases for this in the stdlib?
>
> I have at least one.
>
>
>
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