[Python-ideas] Geo coordinates conversion in stdlib

[anatoly techtonik]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 5:08 PM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Handling geo coordinates in most used formats is as important as
> > handling .zip archives in stdlib.
>
> That may or may not be the case, but if it is, the best way to argue
> the point is:
>
> 1) Find or create a third-party package on PyPI
> 2) Demonstrate that this package has a stable API
> 3) Demonstrate or pledge support for the package
> 4) Appeal for the package's inclusion in the stdlib
>
> You'll need to show that there's benefit to having it in the stdlib as
> opposed to on PyPI - demonstrate the problem with "pip install
> packagename" that means that you want it in the standard library. Just
> *stating* that there is a need isn't sufficient - you need to prove
> it.
>

Why the wave module is there? Or ioctl module? Are they so widely used?

This process is flawed. If anybody would sponsor the research on popularity
of stdlib, I believe that math will be excluded from top 50 as well. Will
stdlib
without math will still be ok?

The measure to estimate the usefullness of standard library is not in
download score, but in coverage across different areas. There thousands of
people downloading stuff from youtube, so should we include youtube-dl
instead of math?
-- 
anatoly t.
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