Unifying modules and classes? (Re: [Python-Dev] a strange case)

[Greg Ewing]

Troy Melhase <troy@gci.net>:

> Just last night, it occurred to me that modules could be made callable via 
> subclassing. "Why in the world would you want callable modules you ask?"

This has given me a thought concerning the naming problem that arises
when you have a module (e.g. socket) that exists mainly to hold a
single class. What if there were some easy way to make the class and
the module the same thing?

I'm thinking about having an alternative filename suffix, such as
".cls", whose contents is treated as though it were inside a class
statement, and then the resulting class is put into sys.modules as
though it were a module.

Not sure how you'd specify base classes -- maybe a special
__bases__ class attribute or something.

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