On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Nick Coghlan wrote: > >> For the directory-as-module-not-package idea ... >> you would need to be very careful with it, >> since all the files would be sharing a common globals() namespace. > > One of the things I like about Python's module system > is that once I know which module a name was imported > from, I also know which file to look in for its > definition. If a module can be spread over several > files, that feature would be lost.
There are many potential problems with the idea, I just chose to mention one of the ones that could easily make the affected code *break* :) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
