I think a valuable discussion that could come from this is to seek to understand why it’s “de facto” standard library instead of “de jure” standard library.
I’ve heard it said that “the standard library is where popular packages go to die”, and I think that’s very true. I’m very happy that Requests isn’t part of the standard library, because that means that updates - including updates that are extremely important to maintaining the health of the library over time - are possible without an entirely separate release of cPython itself.
I think a valuable discussion that could come from this is to seek to understand why it’s “de facto” standard library instead of “de jure” standard library.
I’ve heard it said that “the standard library is where popular packages go to die”, and I think that’s very true. I’m very happy that Requests isn’t part of the standard library, because that means that updates - including updates that are extremely important to maintaining the health of the library over time - are possible without an entirely separate release of cPython itself.