"Colin J. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Isn't this where the discussion should start? There should be some >general policy guiding the types of modules which should be in the >standard library.
A couple of times, Guido has given his general policy as generally useful; best-of-breed, tested and accepted by the community; and backed by a developer who will adapt it and its doc up to stdlib standards (if necessary) and commit to maintainence for a few years. Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list