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Author rhettinger
Recipients r.david.murray, rhettinger
Date 2011-01-31.20:59:08
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> Why not just put them in the 'abc' namespace?

Two reasons:
* There are lots of ABCs scattered throughout the standard libary that aren't collections ABCs (the importlib ABCs and IO ABCs for example).
* Guido viewed collections ABCs as tightly associated with collections.
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