On Sunday, August 13, 2017 at 6:04:42 AM UTC+5:30, Man with No Name wrote: > So.... > > I've an idea to make use of python's unique environment (>>>) to form a > peer-to-peer object-sharing ecosystem. > > Just pie-in-the-sky brainstorming... > > When a programmer (or object-user) starts up the python environment, the > environment can check for an internet connection and if present connect to a > central "name service" to provide a list of trusted peers which will form a > back-end, networked, data-object ecosystem. > > What syntax? > > Well, Mr. Tim Peters seemed to have an idea with namespaces > (~/modules/doctest.py). Namespaces could form an ontology (or "folksonomy") > of objects (visualization, networking, database templates, applications, > etc.) based on a tree data structure, probably and be accessed by some method > such as __namespace__.globals.networking.www.myscrapeobject or some similar > syntax. > > The namespace could be a global, synchronized object repository as well as > holding local copies.
I ‘Mark’ the piquant point that the ‘Man with No Name’ wishes to suggest global namespaces 😈 On a more serious note: REST uses URLs as (syntax for) RPC (which above follows respectable industry standard called ASS: Alphabet Soup Simplistified ) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
