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

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Mar 14 10:39:41 CET 2012 
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:31:34 +0800
Matt Joiner <anacrolix at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Rather than indicating apathy on the party of third party developers, this
> might be a sign that core Python is unapproachable or not worth the effort.
> 
> For instance I have several one line patches languishing, I can't imagine
> how disappointing it would be to have significantly larger patches ignored,
> but it happens.

Can you give a pointer to these one-liners?
Once a patch gets a month old or older, it tends to disappear from
everyone's radar unless you somehow "ping" on the tracker, or post a
message to the mailing-list.

(of course, you shouldn't spam the list with open issues either)

Thanks

Antoine.
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