[Distutils] [Python-Dev] shal we redefine "module" and "package"?

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu May 1 01:17:12 CEST 2008


Nick Coghlan wrote:
> zooko wrote:
>
>> Q1.  You type "import foo" and it works.  What kind of thing is foo?
> 
> foo is a package or a module. Not enough information is provide here to 
> say which.

Actually, it could be anything! But it's *probably* a module
(or package, but a package is also a module, if we're being
fussy about terminology).

-- 
Greg


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