On Jan 23, 8:50 pm, John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The major complaint I have about Python is that the packages > which connect it to other software components all seem to have > serious problems. As long as you don't need to talk to anything > outside the Python world, you're fine.
As one who has attempted to develop a wxPython application with an sqlite backend, developing on both Linux and Windows, I would conclude that the problem is version skew between third-party components and the core. Python 1.5.2 touted a simple core language that made Python easy to learn. I would argue that the core is no longer simple, and it is very easy to write modules that are not backwards-compatible. This results in third-party components that you may need but are either not updated against the new version of Python that you're using, or are not compatible with the older version of Python that you shipped with. I found it quite a frustrating experience. Love the language but I'd rather it not keep reinventing itself quite so quickly, permitting maintainers to keep up, especially when said maintenance is a volunteer effort. Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
