[Python-ideas] namespace for backported stdlib modules?

[Robert Collins]

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/backports/1.0

Question now is whether its active :)

On 22 October 2014 04:43, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> On 10/21/2014 02:34 AM, Georg Brandl wrote:
>>
>> On 10/21/2014 03:18 AM, Robert Collins wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> try:
>>>      from stdlib import unitest
>>> except ImportError:
>>>      import unittest
>>
>>
>> Seeing this as a newcomer, I'd be wondering which one is the one that's
>> actually coming from the standard library.
>>
>> Please don't commandeer "stdlib" for something that's *not* the stdlib.
>
>
> Indeed.  `backports` is a much better name for things that have been, um,
> backported.
>
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