Also, you keep talking about "the core python team" on the basis, it
would appear, of reading one document by Guido. Have you bothered doing
a MINIMUM of homework, such as, looking at
http://www.amk.ca/diary/archives/cat_python.html
Well, you being a member of that core team (meaning nog an organisational unit, but the group of people doing the really hard job, getting Python to work. An excellent job at that :-) I can repect you if not branding me a lamer at least admonishing me for not coming up with a thorough factual statement. But like I stated: "ramblings", remember.
I'm not completely unknown with the workings of our species myself, though. Especially when discourse and policy is dictated by a select group of people (meaning: the one who actually create python, no criticism there) with final abritary powers for one indidual (again, no criticism), mindset *is* just as important as stated fact. Mindset will dictate future discourse and action.
And I do sense (reading planet python/this newsgroup) a mindset or at least a tendency by the people who really matter in these discussion to keep on adding features to the syntax; to add "structure" to Python. My personal preference would be to leave the language alone for a while and to improve its infrastructure.
Regards, Iwan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
