[Python-ideas] Increasing public package discoverability (was: Adding jsonschema to the standard library)

[Paul Moore]

On 27 May 2015 at 19:28, Demian Brecht <demianbrecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is probably a silly idea, but given the above quote and the new(er) focus on pip and distributed packages, has there been any discussion around perhaps deprecating (and entirely removing from a Python 4 release) non-builtin packages and modules?

It has been discussed on a number of occasions. The major issue with
the idea is that a lot of people use Python in closed corporate
environments, where access to the internet from tools such as pip can
be restricted. Also, many companies have legal approval processes for
software - getting approval for "Python" includes the standard
library, but each external package required would need a separate,
probably lengthy and possibly prohibitive, approval process before it
could be used.

So it's unlikely to ever happen, because it would cripple Python for a
non-trivial group of its users.

Paul