Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> added the comment: Copied from msg143857 (Raymond Hettinger):
> Resist the urge to fatten APIs until you're sure that: > * they are needed > * they are well developed (many internal utils fail this test) > * they are worth the extra time it takes to learn what is in a module (adding > rarely needed > tools has the side-effect of obscuring things people actually need) > [...] > The pager functions are interesting and non-trivial. Before making them > public in the > standard library though, it would be best if it had some life as third-party > module to let > it mature (i.e. making sure it works as well in other contexts as it does in > pydoc). I’m thus closing this request. Someone can run with the idea, publish experiments on PyPI, gather feedback from python-ideas, and we’ll see about stdlib inclusion when the time is right. ---------- resolution: -> invalid stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12918> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
