@Stéfane Bolton looks really neat! I'll take a look. Some of my stuff may
fit better as a PR for this library.
Also I don't think its foolish to depend on a package for one function,
given that that (a) that function is really useful or (b) the size of the
dependency itself is small. Given my
Are you aware of https://boltons.readthedocs.io/ (whose motto is
"Functionality that should be in the standard library.") ?
Or similar endeavours such as:
- https://pypi.org/project/auxlib/
- https://pypi.org/project/omakase/
- (And probably many others on PyPI with similar descriptions such as
My intuition has always been that the recipes, taking 'flatten' as an
excellent example, solve problems in a specific way that is not generally
considered to be the "right" way. For example, should 'flatten' perform
one-level flattening or deep recursive flattening? Should it handle
strings as
Not to derail the conversation, but I've always been curious why the
itertools recipes are recipes and not ready-made goods (pre-baked?) that I
can just consume. They're great examples to draw from, but that shouldn't
preclude them from also being in the stdlib.
On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 7:41 PM
On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 6:56 PM Jonathan Crall wrote:
> Sometimes there's a good, useful function than doesn't get added because
>> there's no reasonable place to put it. For example, a "flatten" function
>> has been talked about since Python 1.x days, and we still don't have a
>> standard
@Steve, this is just the sort of feedback I was looking for. Small and
conservative additions make sense. I definitely think that some functions
do fit into existing stdlib modules. For instance, AutoDict might go in
collections.
Sorry, some of these aren't descriptive enough, and if you're
On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 08:36:52PM -0500, Jonathan Crall wrote:
> I'm interested in proposing several additions to the Python standard
> library, and I would like more information on the procedure for doing so.
> Are all additions done via a PEP?
Not necessarily. Small, obvious enhancements can
