Albert Hopkins wrote:
Probably that [c.l.]python is becoming more popular and, like most things as they become popular, it loses its "purity"... much like the Internet in the early 1990s.
Several years ago when I proposed the addition of list.pop(), a couple of people accused me of trying to ruin Python (by spoiling its 'purity', I guess). There were some other unfriendly things said a few years later, by and to various people, in the discussion of integer division. So I think python-list has become more friendly since.
Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
