Michael Foord wrote: > M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> I don't really understand how breaking something as useful as >> the stdlib into smaller pieces would help with anything. >> >> The main purpose of a library is that you have an *integrated* set >> of modules that are known and tested to work together. >> >> The stdlib has gone a long way in trying to achieve that and it's >> getting better at it with every release. >> >> > The particular motivation is to make it easier for other implementations > to reuse the standard library. It was something discussed (with the > maintainers of some of these implementations) at the Python Language > Summit.
The stdlib already has a lot of support for different Python implementation built right into the code. There will always be some things that don't work in certain implementations, but if that's the problem, we could just add an assert at the top of the module or raise an ImportError to warn the user. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Sep 14 2009) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ stdlib-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/stdlib-sig
