“Python's batteries are leaking”

Re:“Python's batteries are leaking” by llukas on Saturday May 18, 2019 @05:05PM (#19949713)

+100

> As an aside, why doesn’t the Python standard library extend/replace features with code from successful packages like Requests?

It is possible (ie. asyncio was separate package). It is slow process though.

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Re:“Python's batteries are leaking” by misterdoubt on Saturday May 18, 2019 @11:04PM (#19951184)

I'd bet that absorbing Requests into the standard library, no matter the particular method of absorption proposed, would present too much of a political challenge to overcome.

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Re:“Python's batteries are leaking” by quietbritishjim on Saturday May 18, 2019 @05:54PM (#19949942)

pathlib is another example.

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