On 6 November 2017 at 09:08, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 9:29 AM, Barry Scott <ba...@barrys-emacs.org> wrote: >> If this is a mechanism that python kitting has then you would be able to >> bundle other packages like requests or six as well as typing, but because >> you can use pip to override the one shipped a user can optionally keep >> up with the latest versions. > > If this were to happen, I would be inclined to put these "bootstrap" > modules into their own directory in sys.path, after the rest of the > stdlib. Then someone who's paranoid about stdlib shadowing could put > pip-installed modules after the bulk of the stdlib (thus preventing > any third-party package from overriding "import random", for instance) > but still update modules that are specifically intended for updating; > plus it'd mean you can get a directory listing of that, and go grab > all the "blessed by python.org as an extension of the stdlib" > packages.
When we say bundled, we mean bundled: the exact same bits you would get from PyPI, installed the same way, and if you upgrade it system wide, there's no trace of the one we bundled. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
