Idea: mention 3rd party "extended stdlib" modules in developer guide
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 1/5
- Estimated time
- Under an hour
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- documentation
Research direction
Start with the developer guide's standard-library changes section at stdlibchanges.html and review how alternative projects are currently described. Add mentions of boltons and more-itertools, preserving the section's existing style; done means the guide points readers to these projects as alternatives to standard-library additions.
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Description
We have a section in the developer guide specifically on proposing changes to the standard library: http://cpython-devguide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/stdlibchanges.html
One of the alternatives to standard library additions that frequently needs to be brought up on python-ideas is the possibility of adding to one of the "stdlib enhancement" projects that adds assorted general purpose programming utilities that are nevertheless considered sufficiently niche use cases that they don't make the cut for standard library inclusion (or, alternatively, folks want them now, rather than having to wait for a new CPython feature release)
Perhaps it would make sense to specifically mention some of those projects in this part of the developer guide? The main two that come to mind are:
- boltons: https://boltons.readthedocs.io/
- more-itertools: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/more-itertools/
There are probably others, but once we start the list, it's relatively easy to add new entries, but with no list at all, it's unlike anyone (else) would suggest adding one.
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