[socal-piggies] Best practice in naming a module that extends another

Jathan McCollum jathan at gmail.com
Wed Jun 22 14:40:22 PDT 2011


LOL@ aoldap. That might be the winner. :)

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Grig Gheorghiu
<grig.gheorghiu at gmail.com> wrote:
> I seem to remember reading somewhere that in these cases one solution
> is to prefix the module name with something unique to your
> organization. In your case you could name it aol_ldap.py for example.
> Or just aoldap ;-)
>
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Jathan McCollum <jathan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> So I have this module I wrote that extends the interface to
>> python-ldap, which is imported as 'ldap' when installed. I plan to
>> bundle my new ldap wrapper into a package (e.g. aol.ldap).
>>
>> It will inevitably cause a problem if I name it ldap.py.  So I'm
>> looking for feedback on how I should name this! Opinions, please!
>>
>> Things I've considered:
>>
>> ldapper.py
>> _ldap.py
>> ldap_.py
>>
>> None of them feel right.  Blah!
>>
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>> Jathan.
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