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Wed Nov 3 00:32:09 CET 2010 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-November/105196.html

On Nov 2, 2010, at 4:00 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:
>> Are we permanently locked into the exact ten filenames
>> that are currently used:  utils, suite, loader, case, result, main, signals,
>> etc?
>> Is the file structure now frozen?
> 
> Somewhat, yes.

That's a bummer.

Sounds like a decision to split a module into a package is a big commitment.  Each of the individual file names becomes a permanent part of the API.  Even future additional splits are precluded because it might break someones dotted import (i.e. not a single function can be moved between those files -- once in unittest.utils, alway in unittest.utils).

Raymond

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