Nobody <nob...@nowhere.com> writes: > All practical languages have some implementation-defined behaviour, often > far more problematic than Python's.
The usual reason for accepting implementation-defined behavior is to enable low-level efficiency hacks written for specific machines. C and C++ are used for that sort of purpose, so they leave many things implementation-defined. Python doesn't have the same goals and should leave less up to the implementation. Java, Ada, Standard ML, etc. all try to eliminate implementation-defined behavior in the language much more than Python does. I don't have any idea why you consider that to be "throwing the baby out with the bath water". -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
