[Python-Dev] Can someone check my lib2to3 change for fix_imports?

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> Agreed. A lot of the pending bugs seem to be related to the version of
> lib2to3 in the stdlib, rather than the stand-alone product. Neal
> Norwitz and I have been working to turn parts of 2to3 into a more
> general refactoring library; once that's done (or even preferably
> before), lib2to3 should be removed from the stdlib. It's causing far
> more trouble than it's worth.

I disagree. I think it is quite useful that distutils is able to
invoke it, and other people also asked for that feature on PyCon.

Why do you think the trouble wouldn't be caused if it wasn't
a standard library package?

Regards,
Martin