Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Have you looked at what's in the standard Python library? > > aifc.py => Stuff to parse AIFF-C and AIFF files. > imghdr.py => Recognize image file formats based on their first few bytes. > gopher.py => Gopher protocol client interface. > token.py => Token constants (from "token.h"). > > I'm sure they are useful to somebody, but do you really think that the > majority of Python users need to parse AIFF files?
There's a *huge* difference between, "Should we add such-and-such module?" and "Should we keep such-and-such module?" The burden for the latter is much, much lower. Some of those modules are there because Python itself needs them (token.py). Some are there because way back in the day before python-dev got disciplined (or, for that matter, existed), a sufficient criterion for inclusion into the standard library was, "Guido uses it." He needed to parse AIFF files and various arcane image formats and do graphics using the old SGI GL (the precursor to OpenGL). That's why some of that stuff is there. That said, I really would like a nice standard way to get the base-n representations of numbers for at least 2 <= n <= 36. -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] "In the fields of hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allowed to die." -- Richard Harter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
