On Sep 27, 2006, at 12:23 PM, Vince Teachout wrote:
Actually, if you think about it, it makes things simpler. You
don't need to use any of those things if you don't need them. The
core of the language is free of all those largely unneeded extras.
However, when you *do* need them, you just add an 'import'
statement, and you have all of the power of that module available
to you.
Sorry, I failed to be clear in what I meant. It's daunting in the
sense of a Newbie Windows user coming over to Linux and asking
"which distro should I use?" They're are a lot of libs, and some
overlap in functionality, so which is "the best?" Once past that
initial awe, it's pretty darn cool, because you can be sure that
whatever you want to do, *somebody* has probably written a lib for
it. For example, without looking, I would be willing to bet five
dollars that there is a library with MP3 functions.
Actually, there are several, so yes, I see your point. There are
modules for getting MP3 info from a file, as well as modules for
converting MP3 to other formats, and even for directly recording and
editing MP3 files. A quick Google, though, will give you some good
leads, as well as posting a question on a Python list. One thing that
was very important to me was that Python has a vibrant and sharing
community that reminds me a lot of the Fox community.
Another cool thing is that if you write a cool module, you can
distribute it and others can use it simply by placing it somewhere in
their path. All they have to do is write 'import thisCoolModule' at
the top of their program, and now all the classes/methods of that
module are available just like the standard modules included with
Python.
-- Ed Leafe
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