On Wednesday 10 September 2003 06:14 am, Seb Bacon wrote:

Evan Simpson wrote:

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I'm thinking seriously about writing a Product to provide collections of Python functions defined by a single source text -- PythonLibraries. This would *not* be the same as Zope 3's persistent modules, although it would provide some of the same benefits.

So AFAICT it's a convenience which allows you (a) to keep related functions together; and (b) to store local variables in a convenient place. It definitely sounds useful but also a lot of work for something it's possible to manage without quite easily at the moment..?

Could you provide a brief summary of why this is better than a folder of python scripts? Perhaps a use case which illustrates the problems of the current way of doing things?

Well, I can inject a reply to that part -- such a product would allow python code that actually looks like real python (e.g. with function definitions). It also seems likely that it could byte-compile better as a result. You can at present write a script that defines functions, but the downside is that they are defined each time you run the script! (Because they're really nested functions, since they run inside of what ultimately is the body of a function). It might well encourage more use of python for logic without having to go to the step of creating specialized products. Or so it seems to me, as a mostly-innocent bystander. ;-) Cheers, Terry -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com