[Python-ideas] Geo coordinates conversion in stdlib

[Todd]

On Mar 29, 2015 6:59 PM, "anatoly techtonik" <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Andrew Barnert <abarnert at yahoo.com>
wrote:
>> Most people I know who use Python as a serious data processing language
don't care much what's in the stdlib because they're using numpy and/or
pandas.
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> Yes, and that's sad that the Python still doesn't have the basic building
blocks of Pandas in stdlib. It is the proven de-facto popularity
achievement that is required for packages to enter stdlib, but that still
doesn't happen. Looks like the granularity of package is not sufficient for
designing next stdlib - the need is to descent into the level of structures.

It isn't just granularity, it is pace of development. Once something is in
stdlib,  is pretty much impossible to make substantial changes to it. Even
if all the other criteria were met, the pace of development of projects
like numpy and pandas is far too fast for stdlib.  Numpy devs, at least,
have explicitly stated they do not want numpy in the stdlib for precisely
this reason.

"stdlib is where packages go to die". I don't know who originally said
that, but it is very true.
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