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If requests and a basic web framework was in the standard library you’d effectively eliminate the majority of my dependencies.

Honestly I doubt see the package management being an issue for most end-users. Between the builtin venv, conda and Docker I feel that the use-cases for most is well covered.

The only focus area I really see is better documentation. Easier to read documentation more precisely. Perhaps a set of templates to help people getting start with something like pyproject.

It feels like the survey is looking for a specific answer, or maybe it’s just that surveys are really hard to do. In any case I find responses to be mostly: I have no opinion one way or the other.




Something like bottle.py would be an excellent candidate for inclusion. The real reason to avoid putting anything into the standard library is that it seems to often be the place where code goes to stagnate and die for Python.


I am not sure why that has turned into a truism.

Really good code in the standard library should reach a level of near perfection, then eventually transition into hopeful speed gains, after which you're really only changing that code because the language has changed or the specification has updated.




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