On Fri, 26 Nov 2021 at 14:39, Raimi bin Karim <raimi.bka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So this is more of a heartfelt note rather than an objective one — I would > love > my fellow Python programmers to be exposed to this mental model, and that > could only be done by implementing it in the standard library. I'm somewhat ambivalent about this pattern. Sometimes I find it readable and natural, other times it doesn't fit my intuition for the problem domain. I do agree that helping people gain familiarity with different approaches and ways of expressing a computation, is a good thing. I get your point that putting this functionality in a 3rd party library might not "expose" it as much as you want. In fact, I'd be pretty certain that something like this probably already exists on PyPI, but I wouldn't know how to find it. However, just because that doesn't provide the exposure you're suggesting, doesn't mean that it "could only be done by implementing it in the standard library". This isn't a technical problem, it's much more of a teaching and evangelisation issue. Building a library and promoting it via blogs, social media, demonstrations, etc, is a much better way of getting people interested. Showcasing the approach in an application that lots of people use is another (Pandas, for example, shows off the "fluent" style of chained method calls, which some people love and some hate, that's very similar to your proposal here). It's a lot of work, though, and not the type of work that a programmer is necessarily good at. Many great libraries are relatively obscure, because the author doesn't have the skills/interest/luck to promote them. What you *do* get from inclusion in the stdlib is a certain amount of "free publicity" - the "What's new" notices, people discussing new features, the general sense of "official sanction" that comes from stdlib inclusion. Those are all useful in promoting a new style - but you don't get them just by asking, the feature needs to qualify for the stdlib *first*, and the promotion is more a "free benefit" after the fact. And in any case, as others have mentioned, even being in the stdlib isn't guaranteed visibility - there's lots of stuff in the stdlib that gets overlooked and/or ignored. Sorry - I don't have a good answer for you here. But I doubt you'll find anyone who would be willing to help you champion this for the stdlib. Paul _______________________________________________ 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/WRSCVNGAS6JALJY56ZE7EU634V7DU73G/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
