[Python-ideas] including psutil in the standard library?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 24.09.2014 22:24, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Sep 24, 2014, at 03:10 PM, Ryan Gonzalez wrote:
> 
>> I would honestly prefer it to be merged into an already in-place module
>> (maybe platform?) over it being added separately.
> 
> Why platform?  That seems out of place.

Agreed. The typical approach is to put a renamed version into
the stdlib, so that there's a possibility to continue using the
package from PyPI.

> If it were to be adopted into the stdlib, I think a top-level module name
> would be fine.  psutil is great, but has anybody asked upstream if they even
> want to be part of the stdlib?

That'll have to happen first, indeed. The next question to answer
is: Who will maintain the code in the stdlib ?

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