Pushing the standard library

[Michael Hudson]

Gustavo Niemeyer <niemeyer at conectiva.com> writes:

> Hello Carlos!
> 
> [...]
> > As it's impossible to clone an army of timbots to solve this problem, we 
> > must try to find another solution. I don't believe that we can sort this 
> > issue without some involvement of PythonLabs and the core Python-dev guys. 
> > The problem is not lack of good modules, but lack of *standard* modules. To 
> > make a module standard, some level of Python-dev commitment is a *must*.
> [...]
> 
> Agreed. Indeed, I think that the first step to start this out is to
> discover which libraries currently have a poor implementation, or which
> ones should start do be developed ASAP. 

shutil is pretty crappy, both in terms of interface and implementation
(it loses on the Mac, for instance).  distutils.file_utils is much
better, and should probably be moved into the core.

just-my-vote-ly y'rs
m.

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