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On Fri, Jul 1, 2016, at 21:50, Kevin Conway wrote:
> I believe the namespace object you are referring to is exactly a
> class. IIRC, classes came about as a "module in a module".

No, because classes have instances. And conceptually they seem like they
*should* have instances. Just using the term "class" carries
expectations.

More to the point, what modules do that classes do not is provide a
global namespace for functions defined within them, so that variables
within them can be used (well, read - writing them requires a
declaration) by the functions without extra qualification.

> Regardless, all use cases you've listed are already satisfied by use
> of the static and class method decorators. Methods decorated with
> these do not require an instance initialization to use.

staticmethod isn't technically required to use a method through the
class (or subclasses), it simply provides the appropriate magic to allow
it to be called through instances.

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Namespaces are one honking great idea Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-02 00:13 +1000
  Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-07-01 10:40 -0400
  Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-07-01 15:49 +0100
    Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-07-02 03:13 +1000
    Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-02 03:46 +1000
    Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2016-07-01 19:26 -0700
  Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2016-07-01 09:00 -0700
    Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-02 03:10 +1000
      Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2016-07-01 12:29 -0700
        Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-02 11:07 +1000
          Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Kevin Conway <kevinjacobconway@gmail.com> - 2016-07-02 01:50 +0000
            Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-07-01 19:55 -0700
            Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-03 13:22 +1000
          Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-07-02 00:59 -0400
          Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Kevin Conway <kevinjacobconway@gmail.com> - 2016-07-02 15:34 +0000
            Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-03 13:44 +1000
              Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2016-07-02 22:14 -0700
              Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Kevin Conway <kevinjacobconway@gmail.com> - 2016-07-03 22:02 +0000
                Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-07-03 16:21 -0700
                Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-07-04 01:19 +0100
              Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2016-07-03 21:01 -0700
          Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2016-07-02 16:28 -0700
  Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-07-04 21:37 +1000
    Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-07-04 15:09 -0700
      Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-07-04 15:11 -0700
  Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea jmp <jeanmichel@sequans.com> - 2016-07-04 17:58 +0200
  Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-07-05 12:58 +1000
    Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-05 13:35 +1000
      Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-07-05 13:47 +1000
        Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-05 16:09 +1000
          A nestedmodule decorator (Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea) Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2016-07-05 21:10 +1200
            Improved nestedmodule decorator implementation Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2016-07-05 21:31 +1200
              Re: Improved nestedmodule decorator implementation Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-05 20:54 +1000
  Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-05 12:34 +1000
  Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea jmp <jeanmichel@sequans.com> - 2016-07-04 13:23 +0200
  Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea carlosjosepita@gmail.com - 2016-07-09 07:05 -0700

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