[Pydispatcher-devel] 'dispatch' naming clash

[Stephen W. <go...@co...>]

Mike,

You may be aware that Phillip Eby's PEAK package has a
sub-package called 'dispatch', which unfortunately (and,
IMO, rather arrogantly ;) PEAK installs into the
top-level site-packages namespace.  So, since I already
had PEAK installed when I installed PyDispatcher, I
did an 'import dispatch' and 'help(dispatch)' and was
completely astonished at the result until I realized
it was coming from PEAK's dispatch package.

Anyway, I realize that may or may not have practical
consequences, but it does make me uncomfortable.  I need
both PEAK and PyDispatch in my application, so I was
wondering if anyone had tried that and, if so, whether
they had experienced anything untoward.

If no one here has tried it, I'll contact Phillip Eby
and see if it would break anything in PEAK if I just
delete his dispatch package.  (Actually, all I'm using
from PEAK is his XMI stuff, so as long as it doesn't
break *that* I'm okay -- I couldn't care less about the
rest of PEAK! ;).

Cheers,
Steve