[Steven Bethard]
> I think that having a package level that exactly matches the divisions
> in the Library Reference (http://docs.python.org/lib/lib.html) would
> be great.
[Brett Cannon]
> Makes sense to me.
>
[snip]
> > 5. Miscellaneous Services
>
> I don't think we necessarily want a misc package. Should stuff that falls
> into here just be at the root level? Besides, some stuff, such as heapq,
> bisect, collections, and the User* modules could got into a data structure
> package. I also think that a testing package would make sense. Could also
> have a math package.
That sounds about reasonable. One possible grouping:
Testing Stuff:
* 5.2 doctest -- Test interactive Python examples
* 5.3 unittest -- Unit testing framework
* 5.4 test -- Regression tests package for Python
* 5.5 test.test_support -- Utility functions for tests
Math/Numeric Stuff:
* 5.6 decimal -- Decimal floating point arithmetic
* 5.7 math -- Mathematical functions
* 5.8 cmath -- Mathematical functions for complex numbers
* 5.9 random -- Generate pseudo-random numbers
* 5.10 whrandom -- Pseudo-random number generator
Data Structures/Collections Stuff:
* 5.11 bisect -- Array bisection algorithm
* 5.12 collections -- High-performance container datatypes
* 5.13 heapq -- Heap queue algorithm
* 5.14 array -- Efficient arrays of numeric values
* 5.15 sets -- Unordered collections of unique elements
* 5.16 itertools -- Functions creating iterators for efficient looping
Stuff I still don't know what to do with:
* 5.1 pydoc -- Documentation generator and online help system
* 5.17 ConfigParser -- Configuration file parser
* 5.18 fileinput -- Iterate over lines from multiple input streams
* 5.19 calendar -- General calendar-related functions
* 5.20 cmd -- Support for line-oriented command interpreters
* 5.21 shlex -- Simple lexical analysis
> > 8. Unix Specific Services
> > 9. The Python Debugger
> > 10. The Python Profiler
>
> Can't the pdb and profiling going into a developer package?
I thought the same thing when I copied the list over the first time.
Steve
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