Python is like democracy. It isn't perfect, but it's the best thing come up with so far. ;-)
Barton David wrote: > Eric Brunson wrote: > > You seem like a smart guy that's having a bad day, so I'm cutting you > > slack. > > Thanks Eric. Yes I did indeed have a bad day (and it got much much worse), > and this is most definitely a case of a bad workman blaming his tools. I > apologise to all concerned for voicing my frustrations: it was clearly > ill-advised. > Still.. call me idealistic but I feel like a good toolmaker should try > to listen to her > clients. > > I am not a dedicated programmer. I have other stuff on my plate. I > probably > wouldn't be a programmer at all if Python wasn't (in the early stages) so > fabulously friendly. > > Alan Gauld wrote: > > But Pythons library is not newbie friendly, sorry. How does > > a newbie know when to use pickle v cpickle? or urllib v urllib2? And > > which of the xml parsers? And as for thev mess that is > glob/os/path/shutil? > > Its not clear to me even after 10 years of using Python which function > > sits where and why. And what about the confusion over system(), > > popen(),commands(),spawn(), subprocess() etc. or why is there time > > and datetime? Sure it makes sense once you've played with Python > > for a while it makes some sense and you learn the role of history. > > This is very much how this particular 'newbie' has experienced things. I'm > not here to damn Python, but to praise it, for opening my eyes to a whole > bunch of stuff. But you know when I teach biology and genetics, and the > kids don't get it, I feel like the onus is on me to improve my > teaching. And > if I code a tool for people in my lab, and they can't use it, then I > feel like > I've got some work to do, either in teaching or in making the tool > easier to > use. > > That's just me, Tiger, and I'm sorry it makes you spit venom. Not my > intention at all. But it's Alan's hand that I want to shake, because as > far as I can tell, he's looking to the future, to the next generation, to > the ugly reality and the bright potential, and quite frankly, you're not. > > This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an > attachment may still contain software viruses, which could damage your > computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email > communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as > permitted by UK legislation. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor