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Wed Nov 3 04:35:38 CET 2010 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-November/105217.html

On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 19:57:48 -0700
Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> >
> > How could we have split the module into a package in a way that matched the
> > API, whilst still retaining backwards compatibility with the old API? We had
> > no choice but to export the public names at the top level.
> 
> I'm not disagreeing with that. What I am saying is can now document
> that it's unittest.case.TestCase instead of having that just be an
> implementation detail.

-1.  unittest.TestCase is far simpler and more obvious that any
javaesque qualified name.  urllib.request and friends are already
annoying enough.

Regards

Antoine.

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