On Oct 19, 12:11 pm, Tino Wildenhain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Abhishek Mishra wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > > I have the habit of using domain names (of either the application or > > company) in reverse in package names. > > > for e.g. com.spam.app1 > > While this seemed a good idea for java, I don't think it makes > sense for python - the reason: in python you have an import > mechanism, where in java you just have namespaces. > > Therefore you can always avoid namespace clashes at import time. > Hi,
Thanks for your reply on a Sunday! Here's my 2 cents on why I prefer this mechanism - I would like not to worry about namespace clashes at import time. Using a toplevel package which isolates your namespace from all others, is a good idea in my opinion. This could be a product name (like MoinMoin in MoinMoin), company name (like google in google app engine - which is just one short of com.google btw), or your DNS. Therefore I use a domain name lots of times. (I admit that I picked up this habit from programming a lot in java). Although it looks like in this case I would have to use just the project name. Thanks & Regards, Abhishek Mishra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
