[Python-ideas] including psutil in the standard library?

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 22:30:41 +0200
"M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> On 24.09.2014 22:24, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> > On Sep 24, 2014, at 03:10 PM, Ryan Gonzalez wrote:
> > 
> >> I would honestly prefer it to be merged into an already in-place module
> >> (maybe platform?) over it being added separately.
> > 
> > Why platform?  That seems out of place.
> 
> Agreed. The typical approach is to put a renamed version into
> the stdlib, so that there's a possibility to continue using the
> package from PyPI.
> 
> > If it were to be adopted into the stdlib, I think a top-level module name
> > would be fine.  psutil is great, but has anybody asked upstream if they even
> > want to be part of the stdlib?
> 
> That'll have to happen first, indeed. The next question to answer
> is: Who will maintain the code in the stdlib ?

"Upstream" is Giampaolo Rodola, who is a core developer.

Regards

Antoine.