"Duncan Booth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > John Roth wrote: >> You have to start somewhere. One of the lessons that's beginning >> to seep into people's minds is that getting something that works >> out there is almost always preferable to (over) design by committee. > > Dead right, but once it goes into the standard library it has to pretty > well stop evolving, so it needs to be right, or as close as possible > before > that happens.
It has to stop evolving in incompatible directions, at least. Although there is a precident with the process functions, classes, module, whatever it is. It's up to five versions now, isn't it? AFAICT, from a very broad brush perspective, there is really only one substantive issue: how to handle multiple path-like "things". URLs have been mentioned in this thread, different file systems and a possible in-memory file system have been mentioned in other threads. So whatever gets out there first shouldn't preempt the ability to eventually fit into a wider structure without substantial and incompatible modifications. John Roth > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
