On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 9:56 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 06:38:00PM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> Sounds good to me. This is definitely sounding complicated and messy >> enough to justify (a) writing a function to clear the screen, and (b) >> testing that function thoroughly as a PyPI module before pushing >> anything into the stdlib. > > This isn't Node.js where standard operating procedure > is to rely on the third-party npm ecosystem even for tiny, ten line > functions. And we should be *glad* that's not the case:
I agree; however, the bar for getting something onto PyPI is far lower than the stdlib, and it makes it far easier to get a bit of testing (hey, folks, here's what I'm playing with, can you try pip-installing it and see if it works on your platform please). So the "first on PyPI, then in the stdlib" route does have a lot of merit. But you're quite right that we don't want to depend on a ton of packages.... ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
