Kushal Das
kushaldas.in · Personal blog · on HN since 2013
Kushal Das, a Python developer and privacy advocate, writes about Python, Rust extensions, Emacs, and security.
What HN saysHN links it for his notes from the PyCon language summit, cited when commenters discuss Python tooling like requests and pip.
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tshepang · 2013-05-05
People are working (or planning to work) on some of those:
* pip (sort of): http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0439/
* virtualenv: already in Python 3.3
* requests: http://kushaldas.in/posts/notes-from-language-summit-at-pycon.html
As for IPython, many would agree it's not suitable for inclusion, which is not necessarily a bad thing. That does not stop anyone from stealing some of its features for inclusion in the default interactive interpreter though.