119: Editable Python Installs, Packaging Standardization, and pyproject.toml - Brett Cannon

There's stuff going on in Python packaging and pyproject.toml.

Brett and I talk about some upcoming work on Python packaging, such as:

editable installs

the need for standardization

configuration of other tools in pyproject.toml

And then get off on tangents and talk about:

why it's good to have packages like pip, toml, setuptools, wheel, etc not part of the standard library

should we remove some stuff from the standard library

the standard library using unittest for testing the standard library

why not hypothesis

I didn't bring up "why not pytest?" but you know I was thinking it.

why CPython and not C++Python

and more

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