Graph library for Python

geremy condra debatem1 at gmail.com
Sun Dec 13 04:31:15 EST 2009


On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> geremy condra wrote:
>
>> Well, I've just concluded a short conversation with Raymond Hettinger,
>> and I think its fair to characterize him as being opposed to the idea
>> at present. In addition to the popularity test, he's also noted that
>> ideally a core CPython dev should be involved in the project. Putting
>> the two together is, AFAICS, a death knell for any extant graph lib.
>>
>> Having said that, I'd still like to see how much common ground we
>> could find among the existing libraries. IMHO, there's a lot more
>> in common than there is different.
>
> The large number of current projects practically guarantees that none will
> be popular enough, and perhaps than none get the usage needed to shake out a
> broadly useful api. So any consolidation wuold be good.

While I agree, I think it's going to be extremely difficult to get any
kind of buy in without a great deal of support from within python.
Any devs willing to throw the time required into this?

Geremy Condra



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