[Python-ideas] Moving typing out of the stdlib in Python 3.7?

[brent bejot]

On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 9:21 AM, Gyro Funch <gyromagnetic at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11/4/2017 2:22 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 7:05 AM, Nick Coghlan
> > <ncoghlan at gmail.com
> > <mailto:ncoghlan at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Perhaps typing could switch to being a bundled module, such that it
> >     had its own version, independent of the Python standard library
> >     version, but was still present by default in new installations?
> >
> >
> > This is beginning to sound like the most attractive solution. We
> > could possibly do away with typing_extensions. Are there precedents
> > of how to bundle a module in this way? Or is it going to be another
> > special case like pip?
> >
> > --
> > --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido <http://python.org/~guido>)
> >
>
>
> Would this mean that other packages in the stdlib with development
> cycles faster than those of python could use the same bundling
> mechanism?
>

This is pretty much how I thought things worked for all built-in packages
until this thread came up.  Is there any reason to not do this for all of
stdlib?
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