* Passiday <passi...@gmail.com> [110924 09:47]: <...> > I have been coding in many other languages, most of the time it was > Java and C#. I don't like the function mess of PHP (ie, loads and > loads of functions without any namespaces etc), but I'd like to think > that Python is different. It is ...
> In my brief coding experience I have stumbled upon Python zfill(width) > method, and I thought, really, do you have to include such a narrow- > purpose method in the basic method set? Perhaps there are more such > methods that are nice when you need them, but then again, you don't > put all the possible methods in the standard set. I think that you have raised an interesting question here. I've been coding in python for 9 years and I have never used it. > Perhaps there is reason such method is in the basic library, and my > complaints are unbased? It could be some sort of legacy. I imagine we will hear from some more senior pythonists on this matter. > Or, perhaps the language is on course to bloat > out and get filled with tens and hundreds of special-purpose methods > that render the language structure chaotic? From my observance, python has developed with care and prudence. I have a feeling (instinctive of course), that Guido van Rossum is/was more likely to say 'no' to a request for a new implementation that Rasmus Lerdorf. MTCW -- Tim tim at tee jay forty nine dot com or akwebsoft dot com http://www.akwebsoft.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
