On 29 October 2017 at 09:51, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 17:54:22 +1000 > Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> This means that >> if educators aren't teaching them, or redistributors aren't providing them, >> then they're actively doing their users a disservice > > Which redistributors do not provide the requests library, for example? > regex is probably not as popular (mostly because re is good enough for > most purposes), but it still appears to be available from Ubuntu and > Anaconda.
I know it's not what you meant, but "the python.org installers" is the obvious answer here. On Windows, if you say to someone "install Python", they get the python.org distribution. Explicitly directing them to Anaconda is an option, but that gives them a distinctly different experience than "standard Python plus some best of breed packages like requests" does. >> All the proposal does is to suggest taking those existing recommendations >> from the documentation and converting them into a more readibly executable >> form. > > I'm curious what such a list looks like :-) I am also. I'd put requests on it immediately, but that's the only thing I consider obvious. regex is what triggered this, but I'm not sure it adds *that* much - it's a trade off between people who need the extra features and people confused over why we have two regex libraries available. After that, you're almost immediately into domain-specific answers, and it becomes tricky fast. Paul _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
