On Nov 23, 2014 4:41 PM, "Gregory Ewing" <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > > Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> Just out of curiosity, why does the stdlib need modules for >> manipulating .wav and other sound files, but we have to go to PyPI to >> get a PostgreSQL client? > > > I suspect it's mainly for historical reasons. The wave > module has been around since the very early days of > Python when the stldib was smaller and the barrier > to entry was lower. By today's standards, it probably > wouldn't make it in.
Size may also be a factor. The wave module is around 300 lines of Python code and isn't growing. The typical dbapi module is probably a bit larger.
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