On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > For a data stream format (like WAV and other mature formats), a module > working well today is likely to work just as well for the same purpose > in several years's time, long enough for today's Python to go through > its full life cycle of support. > > PostgreSQL is a full-blown system that is itself under continual > development, and its APIs continually change to match. Whatever Python > API for PostgreSQL gets put into the standard library today is likely > to be obsolete long before today's version of Python gets close to > ending support. That makes it a poor candidate for inclusion in the > standard library.
That makes sense, as differences go. Though if wave and sndhdr were currently PyPI-only and someone came to python-ideas/python-dev saying "These modules ought to be in the standard library", I doubt they'd get a huge amount of support. Of course, since they're currently in the stdlib, there's absolutely no reason to *remove* them, but any similar modules are likely to stay pip-gettable rather than autoincluded. In contrast, something like Lib/email.py is providing functionality that heaps of Python scripts want - sending or parsing emails is pretty common, so it makes good sense to have that in the stdlib. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
