Dark times... So is it a "case closed", or is there any improvement that will make it worth it to be an stdlib module?
I mean, times have changed from 1995, and I am not referring to HTTPS invention. This is the reason that makes httpimport just tolerable security-wise. I'm talking about the need to rapidly test public code. I insist that testing code available on Github (or other repos), without the venv/clone/install hassle is a major improvement in my (and most sec researchers' I know) Python workflow. It makes REPL prototyping million times smoother. We all have created small scripts that auto load modules from URLs anyway. That's why I thought that this modules falls under the second category of 20.2.1 in https://docs.python.org/devguide/stdlibchanges.html (I did my homework before getting to mail in this list). So, if there is something that would make this module acceptable for stdlib, please let me know! I'd more than happily reform it and make it comply with Python stdlib requirements. John Torakis On 23/08/2017 21:48, Guido van Rossum wrote: > For security reasons. AFAIK HTTPS wasn't even invented at the time. > > On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 11:44 AM, John Torakis <john.tora...@gmail.com > <mailto:john.tora...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > On 23/08/2017 21:41, Guido van Rossum wrote: >> This isn't ever going to be a standard feature. It's available as >> a third-party package and that's fine. >> >> I'd like to add a historic note -- this was first proposed around >> 1995 by Michael McLay. (Sorry, I don't have an email sitting >> around, but I'm sure he brought this up at or around the first >> Python workshop at NIST in 1995 -- I was his guest at NIST for >> several months at the time.) >> > Woah! I was 2 years old at that time! Little did I know! > Can I ask why it got rejected the first time? >> -- >> --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido <http://python.org/%7Eguido>) >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Python-ideas mailing list >> Python-ideas@python.org <mailto:Python-ideas@python.org> >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas >> <https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas> >> Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >> <http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/> > _______________________________________________ Python-ideas > mailing list Python-ideas@python.org > <mailto:Python-ideas@python.org> > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > <https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas> Code of > Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > <http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/> > > -- > --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido <http://python.org/%7Eguido>)
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