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That is great. Maybe I should ask, what is it that makes Python standard lib modules likely to end up like this? The list is pretty long.
by kzrdude 6y ago
That is great.
Maybe I should ask, what is it that makes Python standard lib modules likely to end up like this? The list is pretty long.
- cesarb 6y agoThe Python standard library is old. For instance, urllib.urlopen() already existed in Python 1.4 (the oldest I could quickly find docs for), which is from 1996. Things that were useful back then (like a built-in uuencode module) no longer make much sense as part of the standard library. And mistakes in the API of a standard library are hard to fix without breaking backwards compatibility, while a third-party module can, in the worst case, be discarded and replaced by a newer one.