On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Charles R Harris <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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.
Call me hard-headed, but I feel that "just a bad idea" is not a precise enough justification for obfuscating module names. But then, you are the one working on the code at the moment, so you get to say that :) Cheers Stéfan _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
