Oct. 4, 2017
5:53 p.m.
On Wed, Oct 4, 2017, at 07:14, Barry Warsaw wrote:
On Oct 3, 2017, at 13:29, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> wrote:
I'm not sure turning the implementation details of our internal formats into APIs is the way to go.
I still think an API in the stdlib would be useful and appropriate, but it’s not like this couldn’t be done as a 3rd party module.
It might be helpful to enumerate the usecases for such an API. Perhaps a narrow, specialized API could satisfy most needs in a supportable way.