[Python-ideas] working on a PEP for the preview package (original) (raw)

Matt Joiner anacrolix at gmail.com
Tue Jan 3 15:57:26 CET 2012

Just a suggestion:

Golang uses an "exp" namespace, this would translate to a exp package for grouping like modules in a similar way that xml, http and concurrent are currently used. http://golang.org/pkg/exp/

The name is unoffensive, and somewhat more palatable than preview, which really isn't a protocol, or a bag for special interpreter switches like future.

Under this scheme, the currently proposed modules would be:

exp.regex exp.daemon exp.ipaddr

Rather than

preview.regex preview.daemon preview.ipaddr

Either way I really look forward to something for PEP 3153 being trialed. http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3153/

Matt

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

I plan to take the ideas discussed in the thread on the experimental/preview package (1), and further elaborated by Nick Coghlan in (2), and turn it into a PEP. Further, I'm willing to invest the time resources to make the package release-worthy before Alpha 1 of 3.3, with at least one module in it. This work will be done under the mentorship of Nick Coghlan. Any ideas, suggestions or objections are welcome. I think one thing that needs to be made crystal clear (both in the PEP and in the documentation for the namespace) is that anyone attempting to combine the preview namespace with persistence mechanisms that rely on module names are setting themselves up for migration problems in the future. It isn't just the case that the preview namespace APIs might change: they're actually guaranteed to change, when they move to their final location (probably, but not necessarily, in the next release). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia

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