New submission from Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com>: As per the python-ideas thread starting at https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2017-October/047508.html, this is proposal to add a `pip -r` compatible `recommended-packages.txt` file to the `venv` documentation that summarises replacement module recommendations in other parts of the standard library documentation.
Suggested entries are: requests # Recommendation in urllib.request docs regex # Recommendation in re docs cffi # More typesafe alternative to ctypes six # Python 2/3 compatibility library setuptools # Alternative to distutils that supports modern packaging standards I'm also tempted to suggest pytz as the preferred source of up-to-date named timezones, but I'm not sure how often that's really needed in situations where you can't just depend on it explicitly instead. ---------- assignee: ncoghlan components: Documentation messages: 305210 nosy: ncoghlan priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Add `recommended-packages.txt` to `venv` documentation versions: Python 3.7, Python 3.8 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue31898> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
