[Python-Dev] PEP 408 -- Standard library preview package (original) (raw)

Matt Joiner anacrolix at gmail.com
Mon Jan 30 01:31:34 CET 2012

I think an advocacy of 3rd party modules would start with modules such as ipaddr, requests, regex. Linking directly to them from the python core documentation, while requesting they hold a successful moratorium in order to be included in a later standard module release. On Jan 30, 2012 10:47 AM, "Nick Coghlan" <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote: > Nothing beats people beating on it heavily for years in production code to > shake things out. I often think a generic answer to "did I get the API right" > could be "no, but it's okay" :)

Heh, my answer to complaints about the urrlib (etc) APIs being horrendous in the modern web era is to point out that they were put together in an age where "web" mostly meant "unauthenticated HTTP GET requests". They're hard to use for modern authentication protocols because they predate widespread use of such things... Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

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