Restify PEP 206

pep-0206.txt

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 Author: A.M. Kuchling <[email protected]>
 Status: Withdrawn
 Type: Informational
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 Created:
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 Introduction
+============
+
+This PEP describes the Python Advanced Library, a collection of
+high-quality and frequently-used third party extension modules.
 
-    This PEP describes the Python Advanced Library, a collection of
-    high-quality and frequently-used third party extension modules.
 
 Batteries Included Philosophy
+=============================
+
+The Python source distribution has long maintained the philosophy
+of "batteries included" -- having a rich and versatile standard
+library which is immediately available, without making the user
+download separate packages.  This gives the Python language a head
+start in many projects.
+
+However, the standard library modules aren't always the best
+choices for a job.  Some library modules were quick hacks
+(e.g. calendar, commands), some were designed poorly and are now
+near-impossible to fix (cgi), and some have been rendered obsolete
+by other, more complete modules (binascii offers the same features
+as the binhex, uu, base64 modules).  This PEP describes a list of
+third-party modules that make Python more competitive for various
+application domains, forming the Python Advanced Library.
+
+The deliverable is a set of scripts that will retrieve, build, and
+install the packages for a particular application domain.  The
+Python Package Index now contains enough information to let
+software automatically find packages and download them, so the
+time is ripe to implement this.
 
-    The Python source distribution has long maintained the philosophy
-    of "batteries included" -- having a rich and versatile standard
-    library which is immediately available, without making the user
-    download separate packages.  This gives the Python language a head
-    start in many projects.
-
-    However, the standard library modules aren't always the best
-    choices for a job.  Some library modules were quick hacks
-    (e.g. calendar, commands), some were designed poorly and are now
-    near-impossible to fix (cgi), and some have been rendered obsolete
-    by other, more complete modules (binascii offers the same features
-    as the binhex, uu, base64 modules).  This PEP describes a list of
-    third-party modules that make Python more competitive for various
-    application domains, forming the Python Advanced Library.
-
-    The deliverable is a set of scripts that will retrieve, build, and
-    install the packages for a particular application domain.  The
-    Python Package Index now contains enough information to let
-    software automatically find packages and download them, so the
-    time is ripe to implement this.
-
-    Currently this document doesn't suggest *removing* modules from
-    the standard library that are superseded by a third-party module.
-    That's difficult to do because it entails many backward-compatibility 
-    problems, so it's not worth bothering with now.
-
-    Please suggest additional domains of interest.
+Currently this document doesn't suggest *removing* modules from
+the standard library that are superseded by a third-party module.
+That's difficult to do because it entails many backward-compatibility
+problems, so it's not worth bothering with now.
+
+Please suggest additional domains of interest.
 
 
 Domain: Web tasks
+=================
 
-    XML parsing: ElementTree + SAX.
+XML parsing: ElementTree + SAX.
 
-    URL retrieval: libcurl? other possibilities?
+URL retrieval: libcurl? other possibilities?
 
-    HTML parsing: mxTidy? HTMLParser?
+HTML parsing: mxTidy? HTMLParser?
 
-    Async network I/O: Twisted
+Async network I/O: Twisted
 
-    RDF parser: ???
+RDF parser: ???
 
-    HTTP serving: ???
+HTTP serving: ???
 
-    HTTP cookie processing: ???
+HTTP cookie processing: ???
 
-    Web framework: A WSGI gateway, perhaps?  Paste?
+Web framework: A WSGI gateway, perhaps?  Paste?
 
-    Graphics: PIL, Chaco.
+Graphics: PIL, Chaco.
 
 
 Domain: Scientific Programming
+==============================
 
-    Numeric: Numeric, SciPy
+Numeric: Numeric, SciPy
 
-    Graphics: PIL, Chaco.
+Graphics: PIL, Chaco.
 
 
 Domain: Application Development
+===============================
 
-    GUI toolkit: ???
+GUI toolkit: ???
 
-    Graphics: Reportlab for PDF generation.
+Graphics: Reportlab for PDF generation.
 
 
 Domain: Education
+=================
 
-    Graphics: PyGame
+Graphics: PyGame
 
 
 Software covered by the GNU General Public License
+==================================================
+
+Some of these third-party modules are covered by the GNU General
+Public License and the GNU Lesser General Public License.
+Providing a script to download and install such packages, or even
+assembling all these packages into a single tarball or CD-ROM,
+shouldn't cause any difficulties with the GPL, under the "mere
+aggregation" clause of the license.
 
-    Some of these third-party modules are covered by the GNU General
-    Public License and the GNU Lesser General Public License.
-    Providing a script to download and install such packages, or even
-    assembling all these packages into a single tarball or CD-ROM,
-    shouldn't cause any difficulties with the GPL, under the "mere
-    aggregation" clause of the license.
-
 
 Open Issues
+===========
 
-    What other application domains are important?
+What other application domains are important?
 
-    Should this just be a set of Ubuntu or Debian packages?  Compiling
-    things such as PyGame can be very complicated and may be too
-    difficult to automate.
+Should this just be a set of Ubuntu or Debian packages?  Compiling
+things such as PyGame can be very complicated and may be too
+difficult to automate.
 
 
 Acknowledgements
-
-    The PEP is based on an earlier draft PEP by Moshe Zadka, titled
-    "2.0 Batteries Included."
+================
+
+The PEP is based on an earlier draft PEP by Moshe Zadka, titled
+"2.0 Batteries Included."
 
 
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