David W. Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Opinion---"Batteries included" doesn't mean "a bewildering variety of functions". Nor does it mean "my programming language has a checklist of features" such as I recall the spreadsheet and word processor wars of the (19)80's. Python should indeed make it easy to express your algorithms. It does this through readable syntax, by providing container objects of all sorts, with malleable classes. It gives access to operating system and hardware. Python stays current with softwares of the day. But Python should remain small It's okay to write some code.
Must regular expression syntax keep pace with that of perl? Probably, only because the expressions are directly cut and pasteable. Otherwise, the re language has for me exceeded in complexity that which can be had more simply with a divide and conquer approach. Is there a good reason to have the math module duplicate the functionality described in math.h? No. One needn't know the c language exists to program python. (Historically it was a great and obvious first access to math functions in python. We're years beyond that. Hence---generalize hypot. It's brain dead trapped in 2D!) Don't accept the challenge for a python vs. (for instance) ruby feature checklist. Python should stick to the sensible. ---------- nosy: +LambertDW _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4541> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
