Albert Hopkins <mar...@letterboxes.org> writes: > No, I meant "cleaning up the standard library in spite of > incompatibilities" was one of the goals of Python3 (PEP 3108).
Ah, okay. That PEP is “Standard Library Reorganization” <URL:http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3108/>, and is specifically about removing or renaming modules to “clean up” the library. I don't think it applies to this conversation, which is not about renaming nor removing modules. > Personally I don't see anything wrong with the modules, but that was > my question to the person who said they should all be integrated but > wasn't because of incompatibilities. The changes I'm suggesting would be necessary are to the behaviour of the ‘time’, ‘datetime’, and ‘calendar’ modules: the types they consume and produce would be unified. They're not now, which would represent an incompatible API change, not covered by PEP 3108 nor any Python 2→3 PEP to my knowledge. -- \ “Alternative explanations are always welcome in science, if | `\ they are better and explain more. Alternative explanations that | _o__) explain nothing are not welcome.” —Victor J. Stenger, 2001-11-05 | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
