Re: "no variable or argument declarations are necessary."
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Re: "no variable or argument declarations are necessary."

From: Paul Rubin <//phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid>
Date: Thu Oct 06 2005 - 11:05:59 CEST



Duncan Booth <duncan.booth@invalid.invalid> writes:


> The value XML_NAMESPACE was imported from xml.dom, but the xml package is 


> kind of weird. XML_NAMESPACE defined both in xml.dom and in the 


> _xmlplus.dom package. The _xmlplus package is conditionally imported by the 


> xml package, and completely replaces it, but only if _xmlplus is present 


> and at least version 0.8.4 (older versions are ignored).


> 


> This is precisely the kind of flexibility which gives Python a lot of its 


> power, but it means that you cannot tell without running the code which 


> package actually provides xml.dom.



This sounds like the socket module, which is a total mess.  Library


code should not be written like that.


Received on Sat Oct 15 04:12:45 2005