python-essential -- batteries excluded

Package name: essential, base? no-batteries, discharged-batteries? Solar Python?

Package Contents

• Dependencies on essential packages only
• Same "functionality" as perl-base
• Should work without /usr ?
• Does package size matter?

Package size

Sizes with batteries included, stripped extension modules, no .pyc and .pyo files:

  1004    bin/
  120     lib/python2.3/lib-old
  4       lib/python2.3/site-packages
  532     lib/python2.3/encodings
  208     lib/python2.3/email
  196     lib/python2.3/compiler
  20      lib/python2.3/hotshot
  80      lib/python2.3/logging
  80      lib/python2.3/bsddb
  284     lib/python2.3/distutils/command
  680     lib/python2.3/distutils
  152     lib/python2.3/xml/dom
  8       lib/python2.3/xml/parsers
  72      lib/python2.3/xml/sax
  236     lib/python2.3/xml
  32      lib/python2.3/curses
  36      lib/python2.3/plat-linux2
  1680    lib/python2.3/lib-dynload
  6896    lib/python2.3
  7952    lib/

Largest submodules:

• 932kB: unicodedata & encodings

• 680kB: distutils
• 350kB: pyexpat and xml

Contents, derived from perl-base

perl-base contents and mapping to equivalent python modules

List of modules

• _socket, cPickle, errno, fcntl, fnmatch, getopt, glob, optparse, os pickle, popen2, select, socket, stat, string, sys, textwrap, warnings

Add

• ConfigParser, md5, tempfile, sha, logging, random

List of modules and dependent modules:

• StringIO, UserDict, _socket, _sre, array, binascii, cPickle, cStringIO, copy_reg, errno, fcntl, fnmatch, getopt, glob, linecache, marshal, optparse, os, pickle, popen2, posixpath, pwd, re, select, socket, sre, sre_compile, sre_constants, sre_parse, stat, string, strop, struct, textwrap, time, types, warnings

Do not include:

• _ssl, pickle, cPickle,

For 2.4, include:

• subprocess

Contents, minimum

What to include

empty

What to exclude

• distutils: package installations only, but: some things like distutils.get_platform used at runtime as well.

• encodings & various codecs

  • + python2.4 adds 800kB for CJK-codecs
• different server modules
  • + SimpleXMLRPCServer, DocXMLRPCServer, CGIHTTPServer, BaseHTTPServer, SimpleHTTPServer, smtpd
• network modules not used during system startup
  • + nntplib, gopherlib, poplib, imaplib
• development stuff:
  • + compiler, parser, pyclbr
  • + cgitb
  • + profile, pstats, timeit
  • + hotshot, _hotshot
  • + pdb, bdb
  • + tabnanny
  • + test, unittest
• Tools
  • + pydoc
• Multimedia libs
  • + audioop
  • + imageop
  • + aifc, toaiff
  • + sunau, sunaudio
  • + wave
  • + chunk
  • + colorsys
  • + rgbimg
  • + imghdr
  • + sndhdr
  • + ossaudiodev, audiodev, linuxaudiodev (?)
• Not essential:
  • + nis
  • + user
  • + this
• Deprecated stuff / not used in base lib / not recommended for use

  • + UserList, UserString

  • + dl
  • + reconvert, regex_syntax, regex, regsub, pcre, pre
  • + TERMIOS, FCNTL

List of modules and dependent modules:

• Bastion, ConfigParser, Cookie, HTMLParser, MimeWriter, Queue, SocketServer, StringIO, UserDict, future, _codecs, _csv, _curses, _locale, _random, _socket, _sre, _strptime, _symtable, _weakref, _xmlplus, anydbm, array, asynchat, asyncore, atexit, base64, binascii, binhex, bisect, bsddb, cPickle, cStringIO, calendar, cgi, cmath, cmd, code, codecs, codeop, commands, compileall, copy, copy_reg, crypt, csv, curses, datetime, dbhash, difflib, dircache, dis, dumbdbm, dummy_thread, dummy_threading, email, encodings, errno, exceptions, fcntl, filecmp, fileinput, fnmatch, formatter, fpformat, ftplib, getopt, getpass, gettext, glob, grp, gzip, heapq, hmac, htmlentitydefs, htmllib, httplib, ihooks, imp, imputil, inspect, itertools, keyword, linecache, locale, logging, mailbox, mailcap, markupbase, marshal, math, md5, mhlib, mimetools, mimetypes, mimify, mmap, modulefinder, multifile, mutex, netrc, new, opcode, operator, optparse, pickle, pickletools, pipes, pkgutil, platform, popen2, posix, posixfile, posixpath, pprint, pty, pwd, py_compile, pyexpat, quopri, random, re, repr, resource, rexec, rfc822, robotparser, rotor, sched, select, sets, sgmllib, sgmlop, sha, shelve, shlex, shutil, site, smtplib, socket, sre, sre_compile, sre_constants, sre_parse, stat, statvfs, string, stringprep, strop, struct, symbol, symtable, syslog, tarfile, telnetlib, tempfile, termios, textwrap, thread, threading, time, timing, token, tokenize, trace, traceback, tty, types, tzparse, unicodedata, urllib, urllib2, urlparse, uu, warnings, weakref, webbrowser, whichdb, whrandom, xdrlib, xml, xmllib, xmlrpclib, xreadlines, zipfile, zlib

Module dependencies:

• https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/pymoduledeps2/

Contents, delimited by dependencies only

Modules to exclude:

• Deprecated Modules (lib-old):
  • addpack, cmpcache, cmp, codehack, dircmp, dump, find, fmt, grep, lockfile, newdir, ni, packmail, Para, poly, rand, tb, util, whatsound, zmod, stringold
• Dependencies not in essential:
  • + _bsddb
  • + _curses_panel
  • + readline
  • + _ssl

  • + _tkinter, FixTk, Tkconstants, Tkinter

  • + bz2
  • + gdbm
  • + mpz (removed in 2.4)
• Other modules to remove:
  • + _testcapi
  • + os2emxpath, ntpath, nturl2path, macurl2path, macpath

List of modules and dependent modules:

• BaseHTTPServer, Bastion, CGIHTTPServer, ConfigParser, Cookie, DocXMLRPCServer, FCNTL, HTMLParser, MimeWriter, Queue, SimpleHTTPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer, SocketServer, StringIO, TERMIOS, UserDict, UserList, UserString, future, _codecs, _csv, _curses, _hotshot, _locale, _random, _socket, _sre, _strptime, _symtable, _weakref, _xmlplus, aifc, anydbm, array, asynchat, asyncore, atexit, audiodev, audioop, base64, bdb, binascii, binhex, bisect, bsddb, cPickle, cStringIO, calendar, cgi, cgitb, chunk, cmath, cmd, code, codecs, codeop, colorsys, commands, compileall, compiler, copy, copy_reg, crypt, csv, curses, datetime, dbhash, difflib, dircache, dis, dl, dumbdbm, dummy_thread, dummy_threading, email, encodings, errno, exceptions, fcntl, filecmp, fileinput, fnmatch, formatter, fpformat, ftplib, getopt, getpass, gettext, glob, gopherlib, grp, gzip, heapq, hmac, hotshot, htmlentitydefs, htmllib, httplib, ihooks, imageop, imaplib, imghdr, imp, imputil, inspect, itertools, keyword, linecache, linuxaudiodev, locale, logging, mailbox, mailcap, markupbase, marshal, math, md5, mhlib, mimetools, mimetypes, mimify, mmap, modulefinder, multifile, mutex, netrc, new, nis, nntplib, opcode, operator, optparse, ossaudiodev, parser, pcre, pdb, pickle, pickletools, pipes, pkgutil, platform, popen2, poplib, posix, posixfile, posixpath, pprint, pre, profile, pstats, pty, pwd, py_compile, pyclbr, pydoc, pyexpat, quopri, random, re, reconvert, regex, regex_syntax, regsub, repr, resource, rexec, rfc822, rgbimg, robotparser, rotor, sched, select, sets, sgmllib, sgmlop, sha, shelve, shlex, shutil, site, smtpd, smtplib, sndhdr, socket, sre, sre_compile, sre_constants, sre_parse, stat, statvfs, string, stringprep, strop, struct, sunau, sunaudio, symbol, symtable, syslog, tabnanny, tarfile, telnetlib, tempfile, termios, test, textwrap, this, thread, threading, time, timeit, timing, toaiff, token, tokenize, trace, traceback, tty, types, tzparse, unicodedata, unittest, urllib, urllib2, urlparse, user, uu, warnings, wave, weakref, webbrowser, whichdb, whrandom, xdrlib, xml, xmllib, xmlrpclib, xreadlines, zipfile, zlib

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