Real bad name in the new wx package

wxPython Users
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Hi all,

Sorry to be so direct. I find the name wx.py in the wx
package really desatrous. It is ambigous, what is wx.py?
a package or a file?

Future messages in the mail list:
a:

Can sombody tell me where I find the wx.py file?

b:

wx.py is not a file, it is a subpackage

c:

no, it is not a subpackage. It is a file in the wxPython

directory!
b:

I have py subdirectory in my wx directory. Be carefull,

python is case sensitive.
a:

Thank you, indeed I have a py dir in the wx dir. But

my windows os deplays Py and not py.
d:

Hi all, I'm a newbie. (Python 2.1, wxPython 2.1.n)

I tried

import wx.py

but ...
g:

to d:. In python, when you import a module (file),

you do not specify the .py extension...

To stay in the spirit, I find wx.pie better.

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Beside this, the wx package is working fine. I introduced
some time.clock() in the __init__.py file. The time used for
the
renaming is acceptable. ~0.1 s on my PII 500 MHz machine.

Jean-Michel Fauth, Switzerland

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Jean-Michel Fauth wrote:

Hi all,

Sorry to be so direct. I find the name wx.py in the wx
package really desatrous. It is ambigous, what is wx.py?
a package or a file?

I had the same initial reaction, but Patrick talked me into it. Perhaps he can share some of the reasons here...

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Robin Dunn
Software Craftsman
http://wxPython.org Java give you jitters? Relax with wxPython!

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"Jean-Michel Fauth" <jmfauth@bluewin.ch> writes:

Hi all,

Sorry to be so direct. I find the name wx.py in the wx
package really desatrous. It is ambigous, what is wx.py?
a package or a file?

Gee, I thought I was being clever. On a more serious note, anyone
importing from the wx.py package should know what they are doing,
since it contains power tools for power users. For non-power users,
the end-user tools contained in wx.py (PyCrust, for example) are
started using the scripts installed by wxPython (pycrust, for
example).

To stay in the spirit, I find wx.pie better.

But then you lose the subtlety of the pun, and I've worked very hard
to corner the market on py/pie puns. :wink:

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Patrick K. O'Brien
Orbtech http://www.orbtech.com/web/pobrien
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