On 2/14/06, Alan Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Alan Kennedy] > Two things made me think like that > > 1. BaseHttpServer -> BaseHttpServer.py > SimpleHttpServer -> SimpleHttpServer.py > WSGIHttpServer -> WSGIHttpServer.py
Actually BaseHTTPServer.py and friends use a deprecated naming scheme -- just as StringIO, UserDict and many other fine standard library modules. If you read PEP 8, the current best practice is for module names to be all-lowercase and *different* from the class name. The main reason for this is the following common mistake: import StringIO . . (100s of lines of code) . ...f = StringIO() # oops, should've been StringIO.StringIO(). vs. from String import StringIO . . (100s of lines of code) . ...f = StringIO.StringIO() # oops, should've been StringIO(). Since both import styles are common, it's easy to forget which import style was used and to use the wrong invocation style. While the error doesn't pass silently, it's annoying and a bit jarring; the error message isn't all that clear. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list Web-SIG@python.org Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
