<p>I think an advocacy of 3rd party modules would start with modules such as ipaddr, requests, regex. Linking directly to them from the python core documentation, while requesting they hold a successful moratorium in order to be included in a later standard module release. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 30, 2012 10:47 AM, "Nick Coghlan" <<a href="mailto:ncoghlan@gmail.com">ncoghlan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Barry Warsaw <<a href="mailto:barry@python.org">barry@python.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> Nothing beats people beating on it heavily for years in production code to<br>
> shake things out. I often think a generic answer to "did I get the API right"<br>
> could be "no, but it's okay" :)<br>
<br>
Heh, my answer to complaints about the urrlib (etc) APIs being<br>
horrendous in the modern web era is to point out that they were put<br>
together in an age where "web" mostly meant "unauthenticated HTTP GET<br>
requests".<br>
<br>
They're hard to use for modern authentication protocols because they<br>
*predate* widespread use of such things...<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Nick.<br>
<br>
--<br>
Nick Coghlan | <a href="mailto:ncoghlan@gmail.com">ncoghlan@gmail.com</a> | Brisbane, Australia<br>
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