What should be in the Python standard library?
What should be in the Python standard library?
[Development] Posted Jan 9, 2019 21:15 UTC (Wed) by jake
Python has always touted itself as a "batteries included" language; its standard library contains lots of useful modules, often more than enough to solve many types of problems quickly. From time to time, though, some have started to rethink that philosophy, to reduce or restructure the standard library, for a variety of reasons. A discussion at the end of November on the python-dev mailing list revived that debate to some extent.