On 24/09/2011 20:10, Tim Johnson wrote:
* Passiday<passi...@gmail.com> [110924 09:47]:
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I have been coding in many other languages, most of the time it was
Java and C#. I don't like the function mess of PHP (ie, loads and
loads of functions without any namespaces etc), but I'd like to think
that Python is different.
It is ...
In my brief coding experience I have stumbled upon Python zfill(width)
method, and I thought, really, do you have to include such a narrow-
purpose method in the basic method set? Perhaps there are more such
methods that are nice when you need them, but then again, you don't
put all the possible methods in the standard set.
I think that you have raised an interesting question here. I've
been coding in python for 9 years and I have never used it.
Perhaps there is reason such method is in the basic library, and my
complaints are unbased?
It could be some sort of legacy. I imagine we will hear from some
more senior pythonists on this matter.
The documentation says "New in version 2.2.2".
Or, perhaps the language is on course to bloat
out and get filled with tens and hundreds of special-purpose methods
that render the language structure chaotic?
From my observance, python has developed with care and prudence. I
have a feeling (instinctive of course), that Guido van Rossum
is/was more likely to say 'no' to a request for a new
implementation that Rasmus Lerdorf.
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