On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 09:07:16AM -0600, Jeff Bauer wrote:
[ namespace problem with Zope and PIL ]
Actually this problem should probably be a wake-up call for the Python community to address the issue properly, which is related to what Greg Ward is organizing in the dist-sig. Zope/PIL gives us the first real-world example of what can occur when the issue is left dormant.
Actually, I think one thing that would help (no offense /F) is that everyone should put their code in packages, for example, I recently ran into a problem with HTMLgen, since it doesn't do this, and it has a file named the same as something else I wrote... big nono... I reaise packages are a tiny bit more troublesome to write than anything else, and a tiny tiny bit more difficult to use, but... BTW, Robin Dunn uses a naming scheme TCS.packagename for the BSD DB support and I've certainly had no problems with it. I think the proliferation of Java has aclimated people to using a more um... "verbose" scheme. That doesn't mean I'm saying that all the standard stuff should be moved into org.python.string or whatever But maybe it should? THAT would definately be a Python 2.0 thing. Chris -- | Christopher Petrilli | petrilli@amber.org