On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Jim J. Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com> wrote:
Eli Bendersky wrote (in http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-February/116393.html ):
A package will be marked provisional by including the following paragraph as a note at the top of its documentation page:
I really would like some marker available from within Python itself.
Use cases:
(1) During development, the documentation I normally read first is whatever results from import module; help(module), or possibly dir(module).
(2) At BigCorp, there were scheduled times to move as much as possible to the current (or current-1) version. Regardless of policy, full regression test suites don't generally exist. If Python were viewed as part of the infrastructure (rather than as part of a specific application), or if I were responsible for maintaining an internal application built on python, that would be the time to upgrade python -- and I would want an easy way to figure out which applications and libraries I should concentrate on for testing.
+1 on both -eric