On Sep 16, 2012, at 03:33 PM, Daniel Holth wrote: >It is because the file has a controversial coding style, with up to 25 >lines of whitespace between classes, and includes functionality for >eggs and some other stuff that was unwanted on top of the resources >stuff that partly made its way into pkgutil.
Right, which is why I passively-aggressively suggested an API like it. :) >I am really impressed with the file after seeing how easy it was to >add PEP-345 and PEP-376 support to pkg_resources.py without having to >present a different API to the user, and seeing how it provides a lot >of what an installer needs especially being able to iterate over all >the distributions in a particular folder, but I am glad it is not in >the stdlib because I wouldn't have been able to do that if it was. Interesting, but of course, this is the same with any module in the stdlib. That's why it's (somewhat humorously) said the stdlib is where good modules go to die. ;) -Barry
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