Re: [Python-ideas] namespace for backported stdlib modules?

On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 14:49:03 +1300 Robert Collins wrote:

On 21 October 2014 14:40, Terry Reedy wrote:

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On 10/20/2014 9:18 PM, Robert Collins wrote:

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I want to make the improvements in unittest (which transitively includes mock and traceback and perhaps inspect ...) available for folk that can't use 3.5 yet.

We've currently got the unittest2 and mock as modules on pypi, and clearly we can add another e.g. traceback2 as a way to get the traceback changes out there.

I'm wondering though if perhaps putting up a namespace package on pypi for things in the stdlib - e.g. 'stdlib' (or stdlib2 or something)

I would go with stdlib2 as less confusing, and then omit '2' from everything inside -- unless you intend the package to also be used on earlier versions of 3.x.

I intend it to be used on still-supported earlier versions of 3.x.

What do you think of the idea itself? E.g. is the cost of transition from unittest2 -> $NAMESPACE.unittest worth doing?

That doesn't sound terribly useful. Regards Antoine.