Interesting article and discussion about Python's standard library

[ikod]

On Sunday, 19 May 2019 at 03:33:15 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19948642

>Brown asserted that there were many such dependencies from the 
>standard library to PyPI: typing works best with mypy, the ssl 
>module requires a monkeypatch to connect to non-ASCII domain 
>names, datetime needs pytz, and six is non-optional for writing 
>code for Python 2 and 3.

Actually I see no problem here. I'm using python as everyday 
tool, and yes, there is lot of packages in Pypi repo that are 
more user-friendly or more complete than standard library 
modules, but not every pypi module works on every platform where 
python library works and not always compatible with every python 
version (and this sometimes is real PITA).

Her point is to move some parts of standard library to PyPI, but 
I'm not sure if this is good.  The real point should be to get 
better support for modules regardless of their location - std 
library or PyPI.