> __preview__ would fall into this category as well). And yet I have > essentially no means of gaining access to any 3rd party modules, > whether they are packaged by the distro or obtained from PyPI. (And > "build your own" isn't an option in many cases, if only because a C > compiler may well not be available!) This is essentially due to > corporate inertia and bogged down "do-nothing" policies rather than > due dilligence or supportability concerns. But it is a reality for me > (and many others, I suspect). > > Having said this, of course, the same corporate inertia means that > Python 3.3 is a pipe-dream for me in those environments for many years > yet. So ignoring them may be reasonable.
You clearly want access to external modules sooner. A preview namespace addresses this indirectly. The separated stdlib versioning concept is far superior for this use case. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
