Bill> The example that occurs to me is that "import smtplib" is better Bill> than "import stdlib.inet.services.smtp".
Sure. There is a balance to be achieved however. "import std.smtplib" might be better than "import smtplib", simply because making the standard library a package reduces the possibility of namespace collisions. Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list