Le 28/03/2022 à 18:44, Steve Dower a écrit : > I think to most people "batteries included" doesn't necessarily mean > "standard library," with all that implies. It just means "it came with > the first thing that I installed" (or alternatively, "at no additional > charge").
A point I have not seen made, is that some uses really need *standard* batteries. In scientific research, you'll sometimes share a data-processing script among a large group of non-computer-specialists, who hopefully all have *some* Python+NumPy installed: it may be a full up-to-date Conda, or it may be "a very old version that a former colleague installed for me years ago and now I won't update it for fear I break it". You have to cater to all versions. It may be more glamorous to compete with Rust and JS for "best modern language", than with Excel for "lowest common denominator for calculation". Still, that's a use case where Python has historically been strong, and it's one of the reasons it works so well in the research world. Hopefully this use case is not forgotten, even if those non-computer-specialists users are less likely to be involved here in core development. Cheers, Baptiste _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/V4QX4ZSHSUUMVQR3CRAEMBBR6N3WGVLM/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
