Re: [Python-Dev] Docs of weak stdlib modules should encourage exploration of 3rd-party alternatives

2012-03-12 Thread Andrey Petrov
deprecate. I agreed with Guido that embracing and even encouraging users to use the rapidly-evolving community-built packages alongside the tried-and-true standard library is the best move here. @Terry: I don't know who 'darkprokoba' is. Unfortunately 'Andrey Petrov' is

Re: [Python-Dev] Docs of weak stdlib modules should encourage exploration of 3rd-party alternatives

2012-03-12 Thread Andrey Petrov
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Brian Curtin wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 19:23, Andrey Petrov wrote: >> What such a snippet might look like: >> >> "Batteries are included with Python but sometimes they are old and >> leaky—this is one of those cases. Ple

[Python-Dev] Docs of weak stdlib modules should encourage exploration of 3rd-party alternatives

2012-03-12 Thread Andrey Petrov
Hi Pythonistas, I've had the pleasure of speaking with Guido at PyCon and it became evident that some of Python's included batteries are significantly lagging behind the rapidly-evolving defacto standards of the community—specifically in cases like urllib and urllib2, which lack important features