Reorganizing python.org (was: Why isn't pychecker...)

[Jesper Olsen]

Amen to that!

Separating platform independent & and platform specific modules would
be useful.

But I also think some of the modules do not really belong there,
and/or have the wrong set of methods in them.

Take audioop for instance. Doing audio operations inside python
can be very useful, but the set of methods in this package seem
to come from someones personal toolbox.

Forinstance there is a lin2ulaw() conversion function,
but no lin2alaw() function.
It has a few echo-cancelation functions, but are they really
useful in practice - rather than just illustrating the principle
of how echo cancellation can be done?
I think this type of functions belong in a much larger module,
perhaps build on top of Numeric.

Cheers
Jesper

NB
A search function might also be useful in addition to the index.
The Tutorials are great, but they are less suited as a "reference guide".


Andy Gimblett <gimbo at ftech.net> wrote in message news:<mailman.1015350252.26483.python-list at python.org>...
> If you're thinking about improvements to the organisation of
> www.python.org, I'd like to say that I think the module index at
> 
> http://www.python.org/doc/current/modindex.html
> 
> is getting bloated by platform-specific modules I don't need to know