> But if anyone wants to argue the "the stdlib should be shrinking, not
> growing" position, I suggest they do so *before* someone reaches out
> to the module author. No point in us making the suggestion and then
> being forced to withdraw it.

So I suppose we can take a poll on this? If majority of us agree then I am 
happy to reach out to the author since I am the one who started this thread.

Thanks,
Bob

> On 11 Nov 2021, at 12:28, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 11 Nov 2021 at 11:51, Antoine Pitrou <anto...@python.org 
> <mailto:anto...@python.org>> wrote:
>> 
>> On Wed, 10 Nov 2021 21:12:17 -0600
>> Tim Peters <tim.pet...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> [Bob Fang <boyuf...@bytedance.com>]
>>>> This is a modest proposal to consider having sorted containers
>>>> (http://www.grantjenks.com/docs/sortedcontainers/) in standard library.
>>> 
>>> +1 from me, but if and only if Grant Jenks (its author) wants that too.
>>> 
>>> It's first-rate code in all respects, including that it's a fine
>>> example _of_ Python programming (it's not written in C - in Python).
>> 
>> Agreed with Tim.  This is a perfect example of some basic and perennial
>> facility that would fit very well in the stdlib.
> 
> I agree as well. Is anyone interested enough to ask the library author
> if he supports doing this? That seems to be the main unanswered
> question here.
> 
> But if anyone wants to argue the "the stdlib should be shrinking, not
> growing" position, I suggest they do so *before* someone reaches out
> to the module author. No point in us making the suggestion and then
> being forced to withdraw it.
> 
> Paul
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