In message <14e44c9c-04d9-452d-b544-498adfaf7...@d8g2000yqf.googlegroups.com>, Carl Banks wrote:
> Seriously, almost every other kind of library uses a binary API. What > makes databases so special that they need a string-command based API? HTML is also effectively a string-based API. And what about regular expressions? And all the functionality available through the subprocess module and its predecessors? The reality is, embedding one language within another is a fact of life. I think it’s important for programmers to be able to deal correctly with it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
