I think an advocacy of 3rd party modules would start with modules such as ipaddr, requests, regex. Linking directly to them from the python core documentation, while requesting they hold a successful moratorium in order to be included in a later standard module release. On Jan 30, 2012 10:47 AM, "Nick Coghlan" <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > > Nothing beats people beating on it heavily for years in production code > to > > shake things out. I often think a generic answer to "did I get the API > right" > > could be "no, but it's okay" :) > > Heh, my answer to complaints about the urrlib (etc) APIs being > horrendous in the modern web era is to point out that they were put > together in an age where "web" mostly meant "unauthenticated HTTP GET > requests". > > They're hard to use for modern authentication protocols because they > *predate* widespread use of such things... > > Cheers, > Nick. > > -- > Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia > _______________________________________________ > 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/anacrolix%40gmail.com >
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