X-Received: by 10.13.248.4 with SMTP id i4mr4991491ywf.20.1457657680008; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 16:54:40 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.50.98.70 with SMTP id eg6mr2703igb.4.1457657679929; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 16:54:39 -0800 (PST) Path: csiph.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!peer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!w104no6035479qge.1!news-out.google.com!k1ni14909igd.0!nntp.google.com!nt3no586135igb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 16:54:39 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=172.56.7.40; posting-account=h3aEwQoAAACiuqX-oR3gvCVFm8lLHoWj NNTP-Posting-Host: 172.56.7.40 References: <56d81044$0$19756$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <67f3f258-88e7-4fb5-97f4-f0b1ae63e09c@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <33f7deef-02ca-4548-a8bd-98108121abcf@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: A mistake which almost went me mad From: Rick Johnson Injection-Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 00:54:39 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Received-Bytes: 1622 X-Received-Body-CRC: 1062734168 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:104569 On Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 12:13:39 AM UTC-6, Rustom Mody wrote: > As usual Rick I find myself agreeing with your direction [also it seems > Random832's direction] Somehow i missed Random's remark... Hmm, he does have a good idea! Introducing a new "import statement" would not break anything in the way that rearranging the stdlib structure would. I think it's a great idea, and *LONG* overdue.