= Proposal: set of nice python packages = Goal: produce a set of python (library) packages that we like. This enables a go-to answer and building of expertise in these packages. For instance, what do we want to use to (say) parse HTML/XML? Tons of (good) answers, but should we use them all? Should we use them all for a single project? This also enables design of code around this set of libraries (recipes). It is an explicit non-goal to prohibit use of packages other than these. If there is a good reason (expedience, familiarity, etc) == Potential areas of interest == - multiprocessing: subprocess, multiprocessing - HTML/XML parsing: lxml, beautifulsoup, ... - CLI: argparse, optparse, ... - HTTP: urllib2, urllib3, requests, httplib2, ...