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

[Eric Snow]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 22:13, Jim J. Jewett <jimjjewett at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
<snip>
>
> The big problem with this is that it's something that will have to be
> maintained, so it adds some additional burden (I suppose it will have
> to be tested as well).
>
> An easy way for (2) would be just grepping on the Python docs for the
> provisional note and seeing which modules have it.
>
> Anyhow, I'm not against the idea. I just think it has to be discussed
> in more detail so all the implications are understood.

Is there more to it than having a simple __provisional__ attribute on
the module and/or a list at sys.provisional_modules?

-eric