js wrote:
I read an interview with Guido at http://www.techworld.com.au/article/255835/a-z_programming_languages_python and that's very interesting. In that article, he said "there are also a lot of modules that aren't particularly well thought-out, or serve only a very small specialized audience, or don't work well with other modules." I'm curious what modules he's refering and other Pythonistas feel it's not pythonic.
Consider the next paragraph: "We're cleaning up the worst excesses in Python 3.0, but for many reasons it's much harder to remove modules than to add new ones -- there's always *someone* who will miss it. I probably should have set the bar for standard library modules higher than I did (especially in the early days, when I accepted pretty much anything anyone was willing to contribute). " Now check out what was removed ;-)
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3108/ will help. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
