2011/7/25 Stéfan van der Walt <[email protected]> > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Charles R Harris > <[email protected]> wrote: > > It's just asking for import problems and general confusion to shadow a > > Python module, that's why we renamed io to npyio. > > Why? Users can simply do > > import numpy.io as npyio ? > > It caused problems with 2to3 for one thing because it was getting imported as io in the package. It is just a bad idea to shadow python modules and best avoided.
Chuck
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