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

survey of modules to be added to stdlib

2005-03-18 Thread Alia Khouri
This is an informal survey to gauge the community's interest in adding popular modules to the python standard library. In no particular order, here's my personal list of favourites: path.py - Jason Orendorff elementree - Fredrik Lundh ctypes - Thomas Heller psyco - Armin Rigo IPython - Fernando P