[Python-Dev] Remove typing from the stdlib (original) (raw)

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Tue Nov 7 04:38:25 EST 2017

On 7 November 2017 at 00:35, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

Maybe we just need to fully flesh out the idea of a "Python Core" (What exists now as “Python”) and a “Python Platform” (Python Core + A select set of preinstalled libraries). Then typing can just be part of the Python Platform, and gets installed as part of your typical installation, but is otherwise an independent piece of code.

I quite like this idea, but at a minimum it would mean that the Windows installers for Python should include "core" and "platform" builds, with "platform" being the version that new users are directed to. And I'm not sure python-dev would be comfortable with agreeing and distributing what would essentially be a curated subset of PyPI packages. The most recent discussion on "a recommended set of packages" didn't get much further than 3 or 4 candidates, which hardly constitutes a "platform".

Conversely, something like Anaconda could be considered as the "Python Platform" (assuming they bundle typing...), but I'm not really comfortable with python-dev aligning themselves that strongly with a single distributor. (We're talking about a recommendation along the lines of "people wanting to gain, for example, corporate approval for "Python" should request approval for the Anaconda distribution rather than the python.org distribution").

Paul

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