[Python-Dev] PEP 411: Provisional packages in the Python standard library

[Jim J. Jewett]

Eli Bendersky wrote (in
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-February/116393.html ):

> A package will be marked provisional by including the 
> following paragraph as a note at the top of its
> documentation page:

I really would like some marker available from within Python 
itself.  

Use cases:

(1)  During development, the documentation I normally read 
first is whatever results from import module; help(module),
or possibly dir(module).

(2)  At BigCorp, there were scheduled times to move as much
as possible to the current (or current-1) version.  
Regardless of policy, full regression test suites don't 
generally exist.  If Python were viewed as part of the 
infrastructure (rather than as part of a specific 
application), or if I were responsible for maintaining an
internal application built on python, that would be the time 
to upgrade python -- and I would want an easy way to figure 
out which applications and libraries I should concentrate on 
for testing.

> * Encapsulation of the import state (PEP 368)

Wrong PEP number.  I'm guessing that you meant 406.

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