[Python-porting] oauth for Python 3

[Barry Warsaw]

On May 24, 2012, at 02:55 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

>> Currently, Launchpad doesn't support OAuth2, so while I agree this would be
>> an important feature for a general purpose Python 3 compatible library,
>> it's not a requirement for my immediate needs.
>
>Yeah, but your immediate needs don't necessarily fit the standard library. :-)
>> I'm going to experiment with porting the original oauth library to Python 3.
>> If it works out, I'll figure out what to do from there.
>
>I would object to including something in the stdlib that's already
>known to be out of date.

Oh, I completely agree about that.  I wasn't thinking about the stdlib, but
eventually when we have a modern, standards-compliant, battle-tested third
party library on the Cheeseshop, I do think it would make a nice addition to
Python 3, but probably not until 3.3.

Cheers,
-Barry
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