Charles-François Natali <neolo...@free.fr> added the comment: > I think there is a value to use the very same function names in the > posix module as in the posix API.
It would still be the case, except that they'd live in distinct submodule. > The posix API (and C in general) is also flat, and uses the prefix > convention. That's because C doesn't have namespaces: it's certainly due to this limitation, and not a design choice (and when you think about it, there is a namespace hierarchy, in the header files: <sys/sched.h>, <attr/xatr.h>, etc.). ---------- nosy: +neologix _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13263> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com