[Python-Dev] PEP 411: Provisional packages in the Python standard library (original) (raw)

Eric Snow ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com
Sat Feb 11 04:39:12 CET 2012

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 22:13, Jim J. Jewett <jimjjewett at gmail.com> wrote:

Eli Bendersky wrote (in http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-February/116393.html ):

A package will be marked provisional by including the following paragraph as a note at the top of its documentation page: I really would like some marker available from within Python itself. The big problem with this is that it's something that will have to be maintained, so it adds some additional burden (I suppose it will have to be tested as well). An easy way for (2) would be just grepping on the Python docs for the provisional note and seeing which modules have it. Anyhow, I'm not against the idea. I just think it has to be discussed in more detail so all the implications are understood.

Is there more to it than having a simple provisional attribute on the module and/or a list at sys.provisional_modules?

-eric

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