[Python-ideas] namespace for backported stdlib modules?

[Barry Warsaw]

On Oct 21, 2014, at 11:34 AM, Georg Brandl wrote:

>> try:
>>     from stdlib import unitest
>> except ImportError:
>>     import unittest
>
>Seeing this as a newcomer, I'd be wondering which one is the one that's
>actually coming from the standard library.
>
>Please don't commandeer "stdlib" for something that's *not* the stdlib.

Agreed.  But 'backports' would be pretty obvious I think.

Cheers,
-Barry
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