I had gotten the idea that a "package" was necessarily a completely separate file of stuff - that could then somehow be imported (and that a Module was "simply" a specific kind of package) and then accessed/used/referenced.
You've got that impression because thats the standard way it's used :-) It normally makes not much real sense to put multiple packages in a single script file. Imagine you write a script where you put your package Astronomers; with a longish hash and package Constellations; with a longish hash and your code below in main. The other day you need both packages again for a second script. Then you copy and paste both packages into your new script file....an excellent source for bugs.

Regarding the "longish hash" itself. It's a design flaw to have modules/packages that do nothing than containing data. It's better to save your data where it belongs, in a file or a database, and let you're code read it. That way it's far easier to copy with changes in your data.


holli, /regexed monk/

In reply to Re^3: overview/tutorial on packages - creation and use by holli
in thread overview/tutorial on packages - creation and use by chexmix

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