OT: dotted names (Was: Re: A Python Web Application Package and Format)

Éric Araujo <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.web
Organization Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
 Hi,

 As an aside, I wonder why people use dot+colon notation instead of just
 dots to reference callables.  In distutils2 for example we resolve
 dotted names to find command classes, command hooks and compilers.  So
 what’s the benefit, marginally easier parsing?

 Regards
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