[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] stdlib reorganization (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Tue May 30 22:11:51 CEST 2006

On 5/30/06, Steven Bethard <steven.bethard at gmail.com> wrote:

On 5/30/06, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote: > So, first step in my mind is settling if we want to add one more depth to > the stdlib, and if so, how we want to group (not specific groupings, just > general guidelines). I think that having a package level that exactly matches the divisions in the Library Reference (http://docs.python.org/lib/lib.html ) would be great.

Makes sense to me.

Currently, that would mean packages for:

3. Python Runtime Services 4. String Services 5. Miscellaneous Services

I don't think we necessarily want a misc package. Should stuff that falls into here just be at the root level? Besides, some stuff, such as heapq, bisect, collections, and the User* modules could got into a data structure package. I also think that a testing package would make sense. Could also have a math package.

  1. Generic Operating System Services

    7. Optional Operating System Services

This includes socket, which I would think would belong more in a networking-centric package (not including web-specific stuff). Plus I believe a threading/concurrency package has been proposed before (which included hiding 'thread' so that people wouldn't use such low-level stuff).

  1. Unix Specific Services

    9. The Python Debugger 10. The Python Profiler

Can't the pdb and profiling going into a developer package?

  1. Internet Protocols and Support

Should xmlrpclib be in here, or in something more in line with RPC and "concurrency"?

  1. Internet Data Handling

Should we merge this with a more generic Internet/Web package? Have a separate email package that includes 'email', smtp, etc?

  1. Structured Markup Processing Tools

    14. Multimedia Services 15. Cryptographic Services 16. Graphical User Interfaces with Tk 17. Restricted Execution

=) This section's not really valid anymore (although I will be fixing that at some point).

  1. Python Language Services

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