On: Boltons: A set of BSD-licensed, pure-Python utilities

[ktpsns]

Toolz is really a game changer since it allows you to write elegant functional code (lazy evaluations, currying, pipes, parallelism) in Python which feels native.

As python has the "batteries included" philosophy, such useful gems should be included into the standard library...

[TylerE → ktpsns]

I will kind of disagree.

While having stuff in stdlib can be convenient, it all tends to be where active development goes to die. Compare httplib with something like Requests.

[maxerickson → TylerE]

The comparison would be with urllib.request:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/urllib.request.html

Which right there recommends Requests, but for simple tasks it's kind of unfortunate that people bring in a library dependency.