Re: Stdlib, what's in, what's out

2017-09-19 Thread Stefan Behnel
John Ladasky schrieb am 19.09.2017 um 08:54: > I have come to understand from your other posts that adding something to > the stdlib imposes significant constraints on the release schedules of > those modules. I can appreciate the hassle that might cause. Still, > now I wonder what I might be mis

Re: Stdlib, what's in, what's out

2017-09-19 Thread Tim Golden
On 19/09/2017 09:05, Stefan Behnel wrote: The stdlib is there to provide a base level of functionality. That base level tends to be much higher up than in most other programming languages, but from the point of view of Python, it's still just a base level, however comfortable it might be. If you

Re: Stdlib, what's in, what's out

2017-09-19 Thread John Ladasky
On Tuesday, September 19, 2017 at 1:05:51 AM UTC-7, Stefan Behnel wrote: > John Ladasky schrieb am 19.09.2017 um 08:54: > > I have come to understand from your other posts that adding something to > > the stdlib imposes significant constraints on the release schedules of > > those modules. I can a

Re: Stdlib, what's in, what's out

2017-09-20 Thread Chris Warrick
On 20 September 2017 at 17:16, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 11:58:47 -0700 (PDT), John Ladasky > declaimed the following: > >> >>And of course I have found some other third-party packages: scipy, pandas, >>matplotlib, and PyQt5 are important for my work. I helped a student of

Re: Stdlib, what's in, what's out

2017-09-20 Thread Ethan Furman
On 09/20/2017 09:24 AM, Chris Warrick wrote: On 20 September 2017 at 17:16, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: And if wxPython had been part of the stdlib, it would have meant Python 3 would have been delayed years until wxPython had been ported -- or wxPython would have been pulled from the stdlib and

Stdlib, what's in, what's out (was: "Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages")

2017-09-18 Thread John Ladasky
On Monday, September 18, 2017 at 5:13:58 PM UTC-7, MRAB wrote: > On 2017-09-18 23:08, b...@g...com wrote: > > My rationale is simple, the authors of the libraries are not tied into the > > (c)Python release cycle, the PEP process or anything else, they can just > > get on with it. > > > > Consi