On 8/7/2012 6:13 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
I'd like to request adding the module
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/regex
to Python's standard library in the (near) future
As near as I can tell, the author is lukewarm about the prospect.
To respond the general question:
The author of a module should be warm to hot about the idea and must be
willing to move development into the stdlib source tree and conform to
Python's release schedule, which may be too slow for actively developed
modules.
(If the module wraps a well-known and maintained external C library, the
wrapper must go into the source tree. Then the docs says that the stdlib
module wraps something we are not responsible for.)
There should be community support for the module as one of the best of
its kind.
Someone has to write a PEP. There must be developer support to review
the code, api, and documentation. Author must allow changes. (The new
ipaddress module has had changes to all three, including considerable
doc expansion. Some were to make it accessible to beginners rather than
only ip experts, others to make it conform to current 3.x stdlib
standards and best practices. For instance, 2.x style list returns were
changed to 3.x style iterator returns. )
There must be commitment for the author or substitute for maintenance.
For a long term project I also need some "guarantee" that this
functionality will exist in future.
That is the point of the last requirement.
So, is there a (formal) procedure for such a request or for initiating
some sort of vote on it?
'voting' is fuzzy. Community support. Some support from developers. Best
no strong opposition from a senior core developer, or at least more that
one. Final decision is always by GvR, but he often delegates decisions
to other developers, especially in an area of his non-expertise.
I know there is a "Benevolent Dictator" for Python.
Should I try to contact him personally?
No. If there is author and community support, the next step is a PEP or
discussion on python-ideas list (which Guido reads even if he does not
write much).
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Terry Jan Reedy
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