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

Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com
Tue May 30 23:36:02 CEST 2006

[Steven Bethard]

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.

[Brett Cannon]

Makes sense to me. [snip] > 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.

That sounds about reasonable. One possible grouping:

Testing Stuff: * 5.2 doctest -- Test interactive Python examples * 5.3 unittest -- Unit testing framework * 5.4 test -- Regression tests package for Python * 5.5 test.test_support -- Utility functions for tests

Math/Numeric Stuff: * 5.6 decimal -- Decimal floating point arithmetic * 5.7 math -- Mathematical functions * 5.8 cmath -- Mathematical functions for complex numbers * 5.9 random -- Generate pseudo-random numbers * 5.10 whrandom -- Pseudo-random number generator

Data Structures/Collections Stuff: * 5.11 bisect -- Array bisection algorithm * 5.12 collections -- High-performance container datatypes * 5.13 heapq -- Heap queue algorithm * 5.14 array -- Efficient arrays of numeric values * 5.15 sets -- Unordered collections of unique elements * 5.16 itertools -- Functions creating iterators for efficient looping

Stuff I still don't know what to do with: * 5.1 pydoc -- Documentation generator and online help system * 5.17 ConfigParser -- Configuration file parser * 5.18 fileinput -- Iterate over lines from multiple input streams * 5.19 calendar -- General calendar-related functions * 5.20 cmd -- Support for line-oriented command interpreters * 5.21 shlex -- Simple lexical analysis

> 8. Unix Specific Services > 9. The Python Debugger > 10. The Python Profiler

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

I thought the same thing when I copied the list over the first time.

Steve

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