On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Sion Arrowsmith wrote: > Tom Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Roy Smith wrote: >> >>> Even some of the relatively recent library enhancements have been kind >>> of complicated. The logging module, for example, seems way over the >>> top. >> >> Exactly the same thing happened with Java. > > I was under the impression that Python's logging module (like unittest) > was based on a common Java one, and it's complexity could be blamed on > that.
That would explain it. Who was responsible for this crime? I say we shoot them and burn the bodies. >> if you look at the libraries that were in 1.1, they're very clean and >> simple (perhaps with the exception of AWT). 1.2 added a load of stuff >> that was much less well-designed (with the notable exception of the >> collections stuff, which is beautiful) > > There are very many adjectives I could (and have) used to describe the > Collection framework. "Beautiful" is not among them. I think the closest > I could manage is "baroque". Oh, i don't think it's really that bad. For java. tom -- REMOVE AND DESTROY -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list