Stdlib, what's in, what's out

Chris Warrick kwpolska at gmail.com
Wed Sep 20 12:24:39 EDT 2017


On 20 September 2017 at 17:16, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 11:58:47 -0700 (PDT), John Ladasky
> <john_ladasky at sbcglobal.net> declaimed the following:
>
>>
>>And of course I have found some other third-party packages: scipy, pandas, matplotlib, and PyQt5 are important for my work.  I helped a student of mine get selenium running.  In the case of PyQt, I found TKinter unsatisfactory many years ago, and went looking for better choices.  I used wxPython first, when I was working in Py2.  When wxPython was slow to migrate to Py3, I went searching again.
>>
>
>         And if wxPython had been part of the stdlib, it would have meant Python
> 3 would have been delayed years until wxPython had been ported -- or
> wxPython would have been pulled from the stdlib and something else put in
> its place...
>
>         So no help to those migrating.

If wxPython had been part of the stdlib, there would be much more
manpower to port it to 3. Also, the project underwent a complete
rewrite, which dooms many projects to failure. Perhaps they wouldn’t
try the rewrite, or they would port the older codebase to Python 3 so
that it could be shipped. (They’re currently at Beta 2 of the
post-rewrite 4.0.0 version.)

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