[Python-Dev] PEP 411: Provisional packages in the Python standard library (original) (raw)

Jim J. Jewett jimjjewett at gmail.com
Fri Feb 10 21:13:18 CET 2012

Eli Bendersky wrote (in http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-February/116393.html ):

A package will be marked provisional by including the following paragraph as a note at the top of its documentation page:

I really would like some marker available from within Python itself.

Use cases:

(1) During development, the documentation I normally read first is whatever results from import module; help(module), or possibly dir(module).

(2) At BigCorp, there were scheduled times to move as much as possible to the current (or current-1) version.
Regardless of policy, full regression test suites don't generally exist. If Python were viewed as part of the infrastructure (rather than as part of a specific application), or if I were responsible for maintaining an internal application built on python, that would be the time to upgrade python -- and I would want an easy way to figure out which applications and libraries I should concentrate on for testing.

* Encapsulation of the import state (PEP 368)

Wrong PEP number. I'm guessing that you meant 406.

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