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I've come to use packages outside of the standard library very sparingly; been burned too many times to find that development of some package stopped or slowed
by jonnycomputer 7y ago
I've come to use packages outside of the standard library very sparingly; been burned too many times to find that development of some package stopped or slowed down and backing out can be a real pita.
- falcor84 7y agoWhat is your argument here? Standard library module development is also extremely slow.
- kilburn 7y agoThere is one major difference: an abandoned external package may break with newer python versions, whereas you can always count on stdlib packages being updated for new versions.
- jonnycomputer 7y agoexactly. and i'm in academic software. its even worse.
- falcor84 7y agoCan you provide an example? To the best of my knowledge, minor version updates in Python 3 have been entirely backwards so far and shouldn't have broken any library code. And as for incompatible changes sick as the transition to 3, then these of course had interface changes in the standard library.