On 12 Jan, 14:34, Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you don't know which names are modules and which names are members > then how could a programmer possibly use the API in an intelligent way
Your initial argument is that with import's current dot notation, it's not obvious which is a module or not without accessing the documentation. You then say it's necessary to know which is which in order to use your suggested dot/colon notation. So what are you trying to achieve here? Your 'solution' requires someone to look up the documentation and know what is what, whereas the current approach _doesn't_. Anything can be imported into the current scope, and interrogated there without recourse to documentation. Your approach places onerous requirements on everyone just to satisfy some arbitrary rule-set you've pulled out of your rectum. It's not up to _my_ code to identify how _supporting libraries_ are structured. It just wants to import and use them. Which is, you know, the pragmatic, get-things-done-over-endless-wanking-on-the-mailing- list approach that Python is famous for. You're trolling again, plain & simple. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
