[toyg]

Anything PyPI-related has recently gone into the (terrible) habit of recommending very recent (and often half-baked) tools that live entirely outside of stdlib. It seems pretty silly to me, considering Python core developers made significant efforts to bundle and support pip and virtualenv (venv) in the stdlib precisely to avoid having a lot of de-facto essential libraries outside the core distribution.

If the problem is that stdlib cannot move as fast as PyPI-related development requires, maybe that should be fixed, rather than trying to bypass all quality checks and then relying on obscure shared knowledge to navigate the ecosystem. Maybe there should be a system where specific network-sensitive stdlib modules could be updated faster than the rest.

[di]

You're mostly right, the problem is also that users don't upgrade their Python distribution very often, so they miss out on new features.

> Maybe there should be a system where specific network-sensitive stdlib modules could be updated faster than the rest.

This is essentially what `setuptools` does, by putting a package on PyPI that monkeypatches/plugs in to the stdlib.