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Currently, all the platform-specific path modules (ntpath, macpath, etc)
have normal module names. Since they are implementation details, they
should have a "_" prepended to their names. I doubt this would break
much code: I've never written witnessed any code outside of the os
module that uses the modules.

Brett, it sounds like a good idea for the 3.0 stdlib reorg.

On Jan 14, 2008 5:12 PM, Christian Heimes <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Christian Heimes added the comment:
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> Brett, it sounds like a good idea for the 3.0 stdlib reorg.
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Yep, it does.

> Since they are implementation details, they
> should have a "_" prepended to their names.
No, they are not, and they should not.
There are legitimate use cases for importing these directly. E.g. I
could be on a Windows box but have a desire to manipulate posix paths.

Well, yes but I think that it's rare enough that in the name of keeping
the stdlib clean, it's reasonable to say:
import _posixpath and posixpath
This also occurs when somone wants to modify __builtin__.

And guess what, in 3.0 __builtin__ is renamed to builtin.

On Jan 14, 2008 7:44 PM, Guido van Rossum <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Guido van Rossum added the comment:
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> And guess what, in 3.0 __builtin__ is renamed to builtin.
 point taken
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