Recharging the Python standard library

Re:Recharging the Python standard library by falcolas on Friday October 11, 2013 @12:23PM (#6534099)

I can come up with quite a few of them.

    os
    sys
    logging
    os.path
    re
    subprocess
    datetime
    json
    pickle
    itertools
    urllib2
    signal
    traceback
    socket

It has a lot to do with my job - devops for remote clients. I can't rely on the ability to use 3rd party python libraries, and my stuff has to work reliably with few problematic corner cases. The standard library fulfills both of those cases pretty well.

To refer back to the "old batteries" argument, the included batteries may be the old lead acid type, but they're dependable in a lot of cases where newer lithium ion batteries would rather catch fire.

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Re:Recharging the Python standard library by Daishiman on Friday October 11, 2013 @02:07PM (#6534804)

If I may ask, what's wrong with datetime? I may not have encountered unusual cases, but for most uses the date + datetime + timedelta scheme seems to work pretty well.

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Re:Recharging the Python standard library by falcolas on Friday October 11, 2013 @02:13PM (#6534853)

I don't think anything is wrong with datetime - it's just a stdlib tool that I use on a regular basis. Sorry, wasn't listing just those I think have warts or those replaced by other tools, just libs that I use regularly.

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Re:Recharging the Python standard library by d23 on Friday October 11, 2013 @04:20PM (#6535722)

My only gripe with datetime and time are the organization of it. I can never remember whether it's datetime.datetime.now or datetime.now or time.timedelta or datetime.timedelta, and so on.

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Re:Recharging the Python standard library by falcolas on Friday October 11, 2013 @05:21PM (#6535997)

Yeah, typing datetime.datetime for everything gets pretty old.

I just remember that datetime is the package, datetime.datetime is the class, and datetime.datetime.now() is a @classmethod that returns instances of that class. I do kinda wish it was datetime.now() for the constructor instead.

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