[Python-Dev] Docs of weak stdlib modules should encourage exploration of 3rd-party alternatives

[Guido van Rossum]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> Authors of separately maintained packages are, from our viewpoint, as
> eligible to help with tracker issues as anyone else, even while they
> continue work on their external package. Some of them are more likely than
> most contributors to have the knowledge needed for some particular issues.

This is a good idea. I was chatting w. Senthil this morning about
adding improvements to urllib/request.py based upon ideas from
urllib3, requests, httplib2 (?), and we came to the conclusion that it
might be a good idea to let those packages' authors review the
proposed stdlib improvements.

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