A library in PyPi still requires installing it, which undermine many of the benefits. It won't help me with my gist/activestate recipe, code that I send to a friend, etc. I want to lower the barrier of inexperienced users.
As a documentation of dependencies it will suffice indeed. Elazar On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 7:38 PM Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > On 09/19/2016 09:25 AM, אלעזר wrote: > > > Many proposals to add something to stdlib are rejected here with the > suggestion to add such library to pypi first. As noted by someone, pypi is > not as reachable as stdlib, and one should install that package first, > which many people don't know how. Additionally, there is no natural > distinction between 3rd party dependencies and in-project imports (at least > in tiny projects). > > > > This can be made easier if the first line of the program will declare > the required library, and executing it will try to download and install > that library if it is not installed yet. Additionally, the 3rd party > dependencies will be more explicit, and editors can then allow you to > search for them as you type. > > > > Of course it is *not* an alternative for real dependency management, but > it will ease the burden on small scripts and tiny projects - which today > simply break with errors that many users does not understand, instead of > simply asking permission to install the dependency. > > This should start out as a library on PyPI. (Sorry, couldn't resist. ;) > > Actually, it should. Perhaps a name of "import_pip" would make sense? > Any hurdles faced by this library would be (mostly) the same as a stdlib > version. > > -- > ~Ethan~ > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
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