[Python-Dev] PEP 3148 ready for pronouncement (original) (raw)

Brian Quinlan brian at sweetapp.com
Sun May 23 13:29:45 CEST 2010

On 23 May 2010, at 21:17, Lennart Regebro wrote:

On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 12:15, Brian Quinlan <brian at sweetapp.com> wrote:

You could make the same argument about any module in the stdlib. Yeah, and that's exactly what I did.

I doubt it. Simple modules are unlikely to develop a following because it is too easy to partially replicate their functionality. urlparse and os.path are very useful modules but I doubt that they would have been successful on PyPI. Are you saying your proposed module is so simple that anyone can easily replicate it with just a couple of lines of code?

Parts of it, yes. Just like I can replace most operations in os.path
and urlparse with a few lines of code.

The good news in this case is that the same API has been used successfully in Java and C++ for years so it is unlikely that any major changes will need to be made. Good. Then the time it takes to "mature" on PyPI would be very short.

How would you define "very short"? I've had the project on PyPI for
about a year now: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/futures3

Cheers, Brian

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