Isaac Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In real life, the skills of the two people in >> question are likely to be much closer, and since designing libraries for >> use in all kinds of applications is a really hard task, it's likelier >> than the library designer will make an error in designing his or her >> library, rather than the application programmer in using that library. > > Those are called defects or "bugs". When I find a bug in a library or > an application, I submit a bug report. I might have to work around it > for a little bit, but I don't just work around it and call it goods. > Library designers are normal programmers that work under a set of > requirements like any other programmer (application programmers > included), but when I find a bug in an application, I report it and > try to work around it until it gets fixed; I don't hack the > application or re-write my own just because a found a bug. > You appear to have led a very sheltered life if the only libraries you ever use are ones where you can always get a change to the library api in a timely manner.
In the particular case where I hacked around a private variable, the library in question was burned into ROM on thousands of consumer devices. Getting the library to change simply wasn't an option. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
