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<div class="gmail_quote">(Sending again - I didn't mean to drop
python-dev from the cc list when I originally sent this via the gmail
web interface)<br>
<br>
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman <span dir="ltr"><<a
href="mailto:dirkjan@ochtman.nl">dirkjan@ochtman.nl</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"
class="gmail_quote">Right, it wasn't intended as that harsh... but it
does come with a<br>
rather impressive set of constraints in terms of what you can do with<br>
the API.<br>
<br>
</blockquote>
<div>True, but in some cases (especially low level infrastructure), it
is worth accepting those constraints in order to achieve other aims
(such as standardisation of techniques). Things like itertools,
collections, functools, unittest owe their existence largely to the
choice of gains in standardisation over flexibility of API updates.</div>
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<div>Besides, popular PyPI modules don't have that much more freedom
than the stdlib when it comes to API changes. The only real difference
is that the 18-24 month release cycle for the stdlib is a lot *slower*
than that of many PyPI packages, so feedback on any changes we make is
correspondingly delayed. Hence the existence of projects like
distutils2 and unittest2 to enable that faster feedback cycle to inform
the updates passed back into the more slowly evolving stdlib modules,
as well as the desire to copy prior art wherever it makes sense to do
so (whether that is other languages, existing PyPI modules or the
internal code bases of large corporate contributors).<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Nick.<br>
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