On 1/23/07, John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The major complaint I have about Python is that the packages > which connect it to other software components all seem to have > serious problems. As long as you don't need to talk to anything > outside the Python world, you're fine. But once you do, things > go downhill. MySQLdb has version and platform compatibility > problems. So does M2Crypto. The built-in SSL support is weak. > Even basic sockets don't quite work right; the socket module > encapsulates the timeout mechanism but doesn't get it right. > > In the Perl, Java, PHP, and C/C++ worlds, the equivalent > functions just work. That's because, in those worlds, either the > development team for the language or the development team > for the subsystem takes responsibility for making them work. > Only Python doesn't do that. > > Python has been around long enough that this should have > been fixed by now. > > John Nagle
This just isn't correct. You think that socket libraries don't have incompatibilities in C and that C++ libraries don't have versioning problems? You think that SSL works right from Java in all cases, or that changing your mysql client libraries underneath PHP won't affect it? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
