[Python-Dev] Reorganize Python categories (Core, Library, ...)?

[Barry Warsaw]

On Oct 4, 2017, at 05:52, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:

> My problem is that almost all changes go into "Library" category. When
> I read long changelogs, it's sometimes hard to identify quickly the
> context (ex: impacted modules) of a change.
> 
> It's also hard to find open bugs of a specific module on
> bugs.python.org, since almost all bugs are in the very generic
> "Library" category. Using full text returns "false positives".
> 
> It's hard to find categories generic enough to not only contain a
> single item, but not contain too many items neither. Other ideas:
> 
> * XML: xml.doc, xml.etree, xml.parsers, xml.sax modules
> * Import machinery: imp and importlib modules
> * Typing: abc and typing modules

I often run into the same problem.  If we’re going to split up the Library section, then I think it makes sense to follow the top-level organization of the library manual:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/index.html

That already provides a mapping from module to category, and for the most part it’s a taxonomy that makes sense and is time proven.

Cheers,
-Barry

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