[Python-ideas] namespace for backported stdlib modules?

[Terry Reedy]

On 10/20/2014 9:18 PM, Robert Collins wrote:
> I want to make the improvements in unittest (which transitively
> includes mock and traceback and perhaps inspect ...) available for
> folk that can't use 3.5 yet.
>
> We've currently got the unittest2 and mock as modules on pypi, and
> clearly we can add another e.g. traceback2 as a way to get the
> traceback changes out there.
>
> I'm wondering though if perhaps putting up a namespace package on pypi
> for things in the stdlib - e.g. 'stdlib' (or stdlib2 or something)

I would go with stdlib2 as less confusing, and then omit '2' from 
everything inside -- unless you intend the package to also be used on 
earlier versions of 3.x.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy