Now we have (at least) the following libraries backported from 3.2+ to older versions of Python by members of the core team: - configparser - enum34 - singledispatch - subprocess32 - unittest2 There are also unofficial backports like billiard (multiprocessing). I would be happy if all those were more discoverable by the community at large. Having a single namespace for backports would be great but my spidey sense forebodes large flocks of bike sheds flying that way. Can we put links to those backports in the docs of older versions of Python? Most users would be better off using the updated packages while still deploying on an older release of Python. -- Best regards, Łukasz Langa WWW: http://lukasz.langa.pl/ Twitter: @llanga IRC: ambv on #python-dev
On 16 June 2013 19:30, Łukasz Langa <lukasz@langa.pl> wrote:
Now we have (at least) the following libraries backported from 3.2+ to older versions of Python by members of the core team:
- configparser - enum34 - singledispatch - subprocess32 - unittest2
There are also unofficial backports like billiard (multiprocessing).
Step one is compiling a list. I started a page for that here: http://wiki.python.org/moin/StandardLibraryBackports (It's reachable from the front page of the wiki via the Useful Modules page)
I would be happy if all those were more discoverable by the community at large. Having a single namespace for backports would be great but my spidey sense forebodes large flocks of bike sheds flying that way.
Can we put links to those backports in the docs of older versions of Python? Most users would be better off using the updated packages while still deploying on an older release of Python.
It's probably better to start with a list anyone can edit, rather than links that can only be updated by core developers. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia
There is also faulthandler on PyPI. It is not really a backport since the project developement started on PyPI. Victor Le dimanche 16 juin 2013, Łukasz Langa a écrit :
Now we have (at least) the following libraries backported from 3.2+ to older versions of Python by members of the core team:
- configparser - enum34 - singledispatch - subprocess32 - unittest2
There are also unofficial backports like billiard (multiprocessing).
I would be happy if all those were more discoverable by the community at large. Having a single namespace for backports would be great but my spidey sense forebodes large flocks of bike sheds flying that way.
Can we put links to those backports in the docs of older versions of Python? Most users would be better off using the updated packages while still deploying on an older release of Python.
-- Best regards, Łukasz Langa
WWW: http://lukasz.langa.pl/ Twitter: @llanga IRC: ambv on #python-dev
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