On 3 Apr 2011, at 16:22, geremy condra wrote:
I think we're talking at cross purposes. The point I'm making is that there are lots of issues where popularity as a third party module isn't really a viable test for whether a feature is sufficiently awesome to be in core python. As part of determining whether I thought it was appropriate in this case I essentially just asked myself whether any of the really good and necessary parts of Python would fail to be readmitted under similar circumstances, and I think the answer is that very few would come back in. To me, that indicates that this isn't the right way to address this issue, although I admit that I lack any solid proof to base that conclusion on.
This has been discussed a few times on python-dev. I think that most developers acknowledge that small-but-high-utility modules would not survive outside of the core because people would simple recreate them rather than investing the time to find, learn and use them.
Cheers, Brian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
