On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 2:54 PM Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas <python-ideas@python.org> wrote: > > And if that is the rule, there’s a lot of room for bikeshedding on the edges. > Does the stdlib then include curses because in theory it builds on any > platform if the lib is found, even though in practice nobody builds it on > Windows? Exclude multiprocessing and mmap because they’re not on all > platforms, only Windows and Unix (including Mac and Linux, and even most > third-party iOS and Android builds), which is all 99.9% of the Python world > cares about? Exclude dis because it’s CPython-specific even though PyPy > includes it as well? >
I'm not 100% sure of use-cases, but one potential use for this would be to check for accidental name collisions. That wouldn't need to include the *contents* of every module, just as long as it has the *name* (and this also deals with packages, since you need only the top level). In this way, it would be more parallel to the "keyword" module than "builtins"; you could have "import stdlib; print(stdlib.module_names)" or do a quick set intersection check against your file names. To that end, it would be best if it includes EVERY module that would be considered standard, including all of the ones you mentioned. (Possibly internal implementation modules should be separate, but anything public-facing should be included.) It'd be a quick tool for checking for collisions across Python platforms, versions (just load up another version's stdlib.py and check it), etc, etc. Actually figuring out which ones can be imported is a much harder job, albeit a simple one - just call __import__ on every name and see which ones bomb with ImportError. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/NALK27VTULZ6TL5VMYSAQONAYPKFQXZA/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
