[clear] pyCSV now csv.py

[David MacQuigg]

At 11:37 AM 8/23/2005 +0100, David Wilson wrote:
>Richard Kay wrote:
>
>The name csv.py conflicts with the Comma Separated File module present in 
>Python 2.3 and upwards. This means that a program can't use both modules 
>unless it artificially places your csv.py in a package directory so that 
>it doesn't exist on the 'primary' module path:
>
>         import csv
>
>When csv.py is in the current working directory, or the package directory 
>for the currently executing module, it will always shadow the stdlib's csv.py.
>
>The only way I can see around this is renaming, or creating a dummy 
>package (and dummy __init__.py), and placing csv.py within that. eg:
>
>         import dummy.csv as csv
>
>
>Might I suggest you create a package called "CLEAR" or "clear", and 
>distribute csv.py as part of that? It would then natural for a BATV 
>implementation to live inside that as batv.py. eg:
>
>         from clear import csv, batv
>         from clear.csv import *
>
>etc.

Excellent suggestion.  I will put together packages for Linux and for Windows.

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Dave
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