[Python-Dev] Integrate BeautifulSoup into stdlib?

[Tres Seaver]

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Paul Moore wrote:
> 2009/3/13 Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk>:
>> If a decent package management system *was* included, this wouldn't be an
>> issue..
> 
> Remember that a "decent package management system" needs to handle
> filling in all the forms and arranging approvals to get authorisation
> for packages when you download them.
> 
> And no, I'm *not* joking. People in a locked-down corporate
> environment really do benefit from just having to get the OK for
> "Python", and then knowing that they have all they need.

You are plainly joking:  nothing in Python should know or care about the
various bureaucratic insanities in some workplaces.  Given the
*existing* stdlib and network connectivity, nothing any corporate
security blackshirt can do will prevent an even moderately-motivated
person from executing arbitrary code downloaded from elsewhere.  In that
case, what is the point in trying to help those who impose such craziness?

> Even ignoring the above,

Which the language and library should do.

> your "decent package management system" has
> to deal with systems with no internet connectivity - just copying the
> Python installer onto my pen drive to put on my Mum's laptop so I can
> write some admin jobs for her, is a lot easier than having to pick and
> choose from PyPI what to download before I start.

Nobody is arguing that there should be *no* batteries in the stdlib:  we
are talking about the ones which are leaking acid already, or which
might get there soon due to lack of maintenance.

> -1 on slimming down the stdlib.
> (OTOH, I've no problem with seeing an improved package system - just
> don't use it as an excuse to cripple the stdlib!)

Part of this discussion is about not *expanding* the stdlib:  give a
reasonable packaging story, leaving a given component out of the library
is a defensible choice.


Tres.
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