On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 08:18:54AM -0700, Ram Rachum wrote:
Hi everybody,
In 2007, this PEP was created that suggested integrating Daniel Stutzbach's blist into Python: http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3128/
The PEP was rejected, but Raymond Hettinger made a note that "after a few months, I intend to poll comp.lang.python for BList success stories. If they exist, then I have no problem with inclusion in the collections module."
I have not used blist, but I have no objection to it becoming a collections type if the author agrees.
I realize that way more than a few months have passed, but I'd still like to give my input. I really wish that `blist` would be made available in the `collections` module. I'm working on an open-source project right now that needs to use it and I'm really reluctant to include `blist` as a dependency, given that it would basically mean my package wouldn't be pip-installable on Windows machines.
Does it need to be a dependency though? You could make it optional. Assuming that blist has the same API as a list, you could do: try: from blist import blist except ImportError: blist = list which makes blist an optimization, if and when it is available. -- Steven