Martin v. Loewis <martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de>: > In the case of curses, I believe there is a documentation error in the > 2.0 documentation. The curses packages is listed under "Generic > Operating System Services". I believe this is wrong, it should be listed > as "Unix Specific Services". I agree that this is an error and should be fixed. > Unless I'm mistaken, the curses module is not available on the Mac and > on Windows. With that change, the curses module would then fall into > Eric's category 2 (Not documented as being in the core and not built > in by default). Well...that's a definitional question that is part of the larger issue here. What does being in the Python core mean? There are two potential definitions: 1. Documentation says it's available on all platforms. 2. Documentation restricts it to one of the three platform groups (Unix/Windows/Mac) but implies that it will be available on any OS in that group. I think the second one is closer to what application programmers thinking about which batteries are included expect. But I could be persuaded otherwise by a good argument. -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a> The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets -- Will Rogers
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