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PEP: 360
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Title: Externally Maintained Packages
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Version: $Revision$
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Last-Modified: $Date$
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Author: Brett Cannon <brett@python.org>
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Status: Final
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Type: Process
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Content-Type: text/x-rst
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Created: 30-May-2006
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Post-History:
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.. warning:: No new modules are to be added to this PEP. It has been
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deemed dangerous to codify external maintenance of any
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code checked into Python's code repository. Code
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contributors should expect Python's development
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methodology to be used for any and all code checked into
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Python's code repository.
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Abstract
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========
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There are many great pieces of Python software developed outside of
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the Python standard library (a.k.a., the "stdlib"). Sometimes it
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makes sense to incorporate these externally maintained packages into
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the stdlib in order to fill a gap in the tools provided by Python.
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But by having the packages maintained externally it means Python's
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developers do not have direct control over the packages' evolution and
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maintenance. Some package developers prefer to have bug reports and
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patches go through them first instead of being directly applied to
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Python's repository.
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This PEP is meant to record details of packages in the stdlib that are
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maintained outside of Python's repository. Specifically, it is meant
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to keep track of any specific maintenance needs for each package. It
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should be mentioned that changes needed in order to fix bugs and keep
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the code running on all of Python's supported platforms will be done
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directly in Python's repository without worrying about going through
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the contact developer. This is so that Python itself is not held up
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by a single bug and allows the whole process to scale as needed.
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It also is meant to allow people to know which version of a package is
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released with which version of Python.
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Externally Maintained Packages
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==============================
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The section title is the name of the package as it is known outside of
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the Python standard library. The "standard library name" is what the
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package is named within Python. The "contact person" is the Python
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developer in charge of maintaining the package. The "synchronisation
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history" lists what external version of the package was included in
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each version of Python (if different from the previous Python
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release).
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ElementTree
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-----------
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:Web site:
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http://effbot.org/zone/element-index.htm
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:Standard library name:
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xml.etree
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:Contact person:
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Fredrik Lundh
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Fredrik has ceded ElementTree maintenance to the core Python development
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team [#element-tree]_.
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Expat XML parser
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----------------
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:Web site:
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http://www.libexpat.org/
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:Standard library name:
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N/A (this refers to the parser itself, and not the Python
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bindings)
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:Contact person:
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None
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Optik
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-----
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:Web site:
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http://optik.sourceforge.net/
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:Standard library name:
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optparse
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:Contact person:
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Greg Ward
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External development seems to have ceased. For new applications, optparse
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itself has been largely superseded by argparse.
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wsgiref
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-------
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:Web site:
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None
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:Standard library name:
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wsgiref
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:Contact Person:
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Phillip J. Eby
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This module is maintained in the standard library, but significant bug
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reports and patches should pass through the Web-SIG mailing list
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[#web-sig]_ for discussion.
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References
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==========
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.. [#element-tree] Fredrik's handing over of ElementTree
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(https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-February/116389.html)
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.. [#web-sig] Web-SIG mailing list
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(https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/web-sig)
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Copyright
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=========
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This document has been placed in the public domain.
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