[Python-ideas] namespace for backported stdlib modules?

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 14:49:03 +1300
Robert Collins
<robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
> On 21 October 2014 14:40, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> > On 10/20/2014 9:18 PM, Robert Collins wrote:
> >>
> >> 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.