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Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 09:49:31 -0800
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Subject: Re: Naming convention for in-house modules (Newbie question)
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On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 9:15 AM, HoneyMonster <someone@someplace.invalid> wrote:
> I am quite new to Python (2.7 on Linux), and have built a few modules
> using wxPython/wxGlade for GUI elements and Psycopg2 for database access.
> I adhere mostly to the PEP8 guidelines, and use Pylint to help with
> quality control.
>
> So far I have been *very* impressed. Due to Python's straightforwardness
> and the wealth of documentation, results have been excellent.
>
> Here is my question: I would like to start an in-house library of small
> modules to import, for things like error handling/logging. That's easy
> enough, but is there a recommended way of naming such modules? I am
> concerned about avoiding name clashes with standard modules and site
> packages.

You could put all the modules under a single package; then you only
need to worry about avoiding 1 name conflict.

Cheers,
Chris