[Python-ideas] Putting `blist` into collections module

[Mark Lawrence]

On 20/09/2014 16:18, Ram Rachum wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> In 2007, this PEP was created that suggested integrating
> Daniel Stutzbach's blist into Python:
> http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3128/
>
> The PEP was rejected, but Raymond Hettinger made a note that "after a
> few months, I intend to poll comp.lang.python for BList success stories.
> If they exist, then I have no problem with inclusion in the collections
> module."
>
> I realize that way more than a few months have passed, but I'd still
> like to give my input. I really wish that `blist` would be made
> available in the `collections` module. I'm working on an open-source
> project right now that needs to use it and I'm really reluctant to
> include `blist` as a dependency, given that it would basically me an my
> package wouldn't be pip-installable on Windows machines.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Ram.
>

I think we need one PEP that says "let's include everything from pypi in 
the stdlib".

Pros - saves writing and reiewing lots of PEPs.

Cons - maintainance of Python is made fractionally more difficult.

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what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence