Re: survey of modules to be added to stdlib

2005-03-20 Thread Alia Khouri
It would be amazing if you could add the feature to do combo package installs like : - a scientific python combo (which would include scipy, numarray, Numpy, plotting libs, etc) - an AI python combo(orange, constraint programming modules, agent libs, etc) - a game development python combo (pygam

Re: survey of modules to be added to stdlib

2005-03-18 Thread Swaroop C H
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 03:40:31 GMT, Ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would prefer to have a install utility included that retrieves a > list of modules we can install, update, or uninstall, from the web in > a consistent easy way. It would really be nice if they listed what > modules they were dep

Re: survey of modules to be added to stdlib

2005-03-18 Thread Ron
On 18 Mar 2005 14:16:01 -0800, "Alia Khouri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This is an informal survey to gauge the community's interest in adding >popular modules to the python standard library. I would prefer to have a install utility included that retrieves a list of modules we can install, updat

Re: survey of modules to be added to stdlib

2005-03-18 Thread Paul Rubin
"Raymond Hettinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > psyco - Armin Rigo > This is platform specific. That's ok, there's plenty of platform specific modules in the stdlib already, and this seems like a good one to add. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: survey of modules to be added to stdlib

2005-03-18 Thread Raymond Hettinger
> psyco - Armin Rigo This is platform specific. Raymond -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: survey of modules to be added to stdlib

2005-03-18 Thread Neil Hodgson
Alia Khouri: > ctypes - Thomas Heller I would like this to go in but it won't be added as it allows unsafe code, such as dereferencing bad pointers. Neil -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: survey of modules to be added to stdlib

2005-03-18 Thread "Martin v. Löwis"
Alia Khouri wrote: BTW is there an official set of conditions that have to be met before a module can be accepted into the stdlib? Yes - although this has never been followed to date: In PEP 2, http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0002.html a procedure is defined how new modules can be added. Essentially