On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 3:10 PM, Sven R. Kunze <srkunze@mail.de> wrote:

@David
Your idea of a PyPI package could almost work. However, in an interactive python console, I expect as much batteries included as possible to make it as quick as possible. And considering how simple such wrapper would be, it almost does not warrant the download of a third-party package.

Of course I don't think it's worth having a PyPI package for this one function. That's why I suggested it could possibly live in `boltons` (that already contains a lot of other simple functions that aren't in the stdlib) or in `arek_utils` (which I haven't described except implicitly as a collection of "a bunch of useful things").

Tim argues that this functionality is even too simple for inclusion in boltons; that might be true. But either way, it's not a huge burden in the interactive console to type a first line of `from my_utils import *` before getting down to work.

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