Tom Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Roy Smith wrote: >> Even some of the relatively recent library enhancements have been kind >> of complicated. The logging module, for example, seems way over the >> top. >Exactly the same thing happened with Java.
I was under the impression that Python's logging module (like unittest) was based on a common Java one, and it's complexity could be blamed on that. > if you look at the libraries >that were in 1.1, they're very clean and simple (perhaps with the >exception of AWT). 1.2 added a load of stuff that was much less >well-designed (with the notable exception of the collections stuff, which >is beautiful) There are very many adjectives I could (and have) used to describe the Collection framework. "Beautiful" is not among them. I think the closest I could manage is "baroque". -- \S -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chaos.org.uk/~sion/ ___ | "Frankly I have no feelings towards penguins one way or the other" \X/ | -- Arthur C. Clarke her nu becomeþ se bera eadward ofdun hlæddre heafdes bæce bump bump bump
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