#282 PythonScript lacks Python standard libraries, breaks Emmet (i.e. ZenCoding successor)

[The Shady Watcher]

Has it really been since 2013 since a single plugin ticket has been closed? Here's an easy one; for those who know how to update the Plugin Manager repository. PythonScript:

[https://sourceforge.net/projects/npppythonscript/files/]Sourceforge PythonScript project(http://)

has a fine package which presumably appears in the plugin manager. However, it lacks the contents of the <notepad++ folder="">\Plugins\PythonScript folder. This breaks the Emmet plugin, where Emmet is the successor to ZenCoding. This folder is included in the standard distribution of PythonScript for NPP, and yet, when one installs PythonScript from the plugin manager, the complete contents of the PythonScript FOR NPP archive are NOT included. One might reasonably exclude the \Plugins\docs folder from this archive, but the \Plugins\PythonScript folder seems to contain all the standard Python libraries. Imagine coding in C or C++ without the standard libraries! Lacking this crucial folder also breaks the Emmet plugin. When one elects to install Emmet from the Plugin Manager, it has the dependency of PythonScript; but without Python's libraries, Emmet fails. Copying the entire latest PythonScript for NPP archive into the NPP program folder and overwriting any existing files fixes it. Thus, it occurs to me that one of two things should be done: either 1) include the standard Python libraries with Python, which seems the most obvious and logical solution to me, or 2) make the Python libraries and perhaps the docs foder (only one CHM file is in it) a separate Plugin Manager item, and make Emmet (and any other things that rely on Python's standard libraries) have the Python standard libraries as an additional dependency.</notepad++>

FWIW: I am not a Python programmer; so the impetus for this is not so that I can have an extended Python environment in NPP that most people would never use. I want and use Emmet from time to time, and was disappointed to find it broken in NPP. NPP now has spellchecking not dependent on the ridiculously out of date Windows version of aspell, and which underlines spelling errors as many other text editors now do. It is competitive as a general text editor with what is IMHO, the other of the two best free text editors out there: Netbeans; and has some features which are better (e.g. not locking up with some regularity). Why not give the plugins some love by simply including the needed folder in the PythonScript distribution, and fix this enormously popular and trendy HTML coding utility?