On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 10:10:21AM -0700, Brendan Barnwell wrote: > Only now, since the libraries aren't in the stdlib, the Python devs > won't really be able to do anything to fix that; all they could do > is remove the offending package from the approved list. In practice > I think this is unlikely to happen, since the idea would be that > Python devs would be judicious in awarding the seal of approval only > to projects that are robust and not prone to breakage. But it does > change the nature of the approval from "we approve this *code* and > we will fix it if it breaks" (which is how the existing stdlib > works) to "we approve these *people* (the people working on requests > or regex or whatever) and we will cease to do if they break their > code".
Let's be realistic: If MRAB were to include regex in the stdlib, *he* would be the one fixing things anyway. And he'd get to fight feature requests and stylistic rewrites. :-) Stefan Krah _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
