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On 07/01/2016 10:10 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Jul 2016 02:00 am, Ethan Furman wrote:

>> Did you mean for this to go to -Ideas?
>
> Not yet. I wanted some initial feedback to see if anyone else liked the idea
> before taking it to Bikeshedding Central :-)
>
> Besides, I expect Python-Ideas will say it needs to be a package on PpPI
> first. Although I am kinda considering sneaking this into the std lib as an
> undocumented internal feature, like simplegeneric in pkgutil. (Don't tell
> anyone I said that *wink* )

Are there good use-cases for this in the stdlib?

--
~Ethan~