"BJörn Lindqvist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In fact, it almost seems like[...] There exist better third party
> modules and packages of most functionality in the standard
> library. The only examples I can think of that seem to have a
> "monopoly" is subprocess, decimal, thread and pickle. Are there any
> more? Maybe when ElementTree joins the stdlib it will also have a
> monopoly on DOM parsers.
I'm not sure what criteria should be used for "monopoly" in that
context.
For me, standard library modules that do their one thing well enough
that I don't consider looking elsewhere:
re
struct
unicodedata
decimal
random
logging
Queue
urlparse
email
A shorter list than I expected, now that I come to make it.
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