data ecosystem

[Rustom Mody]

On Sunday, August 13, 2017 at 6:04:42 AM UTC+5:30, Man with No Name wrote:
> So....
> 
> I've an idea to make use of python's unique environment (>>>) to form a peer-to-peer object-sharing ecosystem.
> 
> Just pie-in-the-sky brainstorming...
> 
> When a programmer (or object-user) starts up the python environment, the environment can check for an internet connection and if present connect to a central "name service" to provide a list of trusted peers which will form a back-end, networked, data-object ecosystem.
> 
> What syntax?
> 
> Well, Mr. Tim Peters seemed to have an idea with namespaces (~/modules/doctest.py).  Namespaces could form an ontology (or "folksonomy") of objects (visualization, networking, database templates, applications, etc.) based on a tree data structure, probably and be accessed by some method such as __namespace__.globals.networking.www.myscrapeobject or some similar syntax.
> 
> The namespace could be a global, synchronized object repository as well as holding local copies.  

I ‘Mark’ the piquant point that the ‘Man with No Name’ wishes to suggest 
global namespaces 😈

On a more serious note:
REST uses URLs as (syntax for) RPC

(which above follows respectable industry standard called 
ASS: Alphabet Soup Simplistified
)