Re: PEP for module naming conventions

2011-03-17 Thread Jonathan Gossage
I have found this approach problematic if you have packages separately developed and maintained in different directory trees, resulting in more than one PYTHONPATH entry with the same root metapackage name. What happens is that only the first entry in the PYTHONPATH containing the metapackage name

Re: PEP for module naming conventions

2011-03-17 Thread eryksun ()
On Friday, March 11, 2011 4:52:57 PM UTC-5, Tim Johnson wrote: > I need to be better informed on naming conventions for modules. For > instance, I need to create a new module and I want to make sure that > the module name will not conflict with any future or current python > system module names.

Re: PEP for module naming conventions

2011-03-17 Thread Mel
Tim Johnson wrote: > I need to be better informed on naming conventions for modules. For > instance, I need to create a new module and I want to make sure that > the module name will not conflict with any future or current python > system module names. COBOL in its golden years had a practice th

Re: PEP for module naming conventions

2011-03-13 Thread Tim Johnson
* Ben Finney [110313 17:15]: > Tim Johnson writes: > > > I need to be better informed on naming conventions for modules. For > > instance, I need to create a new module and I want to make sure that > > the module name will not conflict with any future or current python > > system module names. >

Re: PEP for module naming conventions

2011-03-13 Thread Ben Finney
Tim Johnson writes: > I need to be better informed on naming conventions for modules. For > instance, I need to create a new module and I want to make sure that > the module name will not conflict with any future or current python > system module names. You'll never be able to make sure of that,

Re: PEP for module naming conventions

2011-03-11 Thread Tim Johnson
* David Marek [110311 13:20]: > Hi, > > Have you read PEP 8? http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/ > I don't think it's possible to be sure that the name of your module > won't conflict with system module name (if you'll follow conventions). > > You can find the list of all PEPs at http://python.

Re: PEP for module naming conventions

2011-03-11 Thread David Marek
Hi, Have you read PEP 8? http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/ I don't think it's possible to be sure that the name of your module won't conflict with system module name (if you'll follow conventions). You can find the list of all PEPs at http://python.org/dev/peps/ -- David Marek dav...@atrey.k