James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> > You're having a conversation with a spambot. Actually, my intent was to address the question that was asked. Much of the genuine conversation in the group really does intermix the various senses of "Python", sometimes in ways that confuse the issues actually being discussed. People ask for changes to the language syntax when what they are really after can be addressed by additions or changes to libraries. Or they believe Python should have such-and-such a feature when the feature is available through external packages. Or their suggested changes to accommodate their desired feature would require fundamental and incompatible changes to the compiler. The way I think of the language Python is as a clean, small enabler of functionality. The prepackaged Python distro supplies some of that functionality (the included batteries), and the environment Python makes far more available. Under that view, changes to the language should be the sort that allow the functionality to proceed cleanly. That is, there should be a Pythonic way to approach databases, windowing, interprocess communication and so on. The packages that perform the function should be interchangeable as far as the language is concerned. I don't believe everyone here would agree with this view, possibly. Regardless of the origin of the question, though, it is one worth discussing, which is why I responded to the post. Do we all really have the same view of what Python actually is? Or what it could be? -- rzed -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
