On 10/25/2010 6:34 AM, Alex Willmer wrote:
On Oct 25, 11:07 am, kj<no.em...@please.post> wrote:
In "The Zen of Python", one of the "maxims" is "flat is better than
nested"? Why? Can anyone give me a concrete example that illustrates
this point?
I take this as a reference to the layout of the Python standard
library and other packages i.e. it's better to have a module hierarchy
of depth 1 or 2 and many top level items, than a depth of 5+ and only
a few top level items.
For instance
import re2
import sqlite3
import logging
import something_thirdparty
vs
import java.util.regex
import java.sql
import java.util.logging
As in
Python 2: import urllib
Python 3: import urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error
http://diveintopython3.org/porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html
John Nagle
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