On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 1:02 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 00:46:00 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 8:40 PM, Steven D'Aprano >> <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >>> On Sun, 24 Jun 2018 11:18:37 +0100, Bart wrote: >>> >>>> I wonder why it is just me that constantly needs to justify his >>>> existence in this group? >>> >>> Because its just you who spends 90% of his time here complaining about >>> how Python does it wrong. >> >> ... and spends 95% of that time demonstrating his utter lack of >> understanding of how Python does it at all. It's wrong even though you >> don't understand how it actually works. > > Be fair. It's more like 50% of the time. > > Let's not dogpile onto Bart. He asked a question, I answered it, we don't > all need to sink the boot in as well.
Fair. Still, it does seem that most of the criticisms are based on ignorance, not reasoned disagreement. For instance, I could argue that Python's model of "variables are local if written to, otherwise they're looked up globally" is a poor choice, because I have extensively used Python AND other (C-like) models. Or I could argue that Python really ought to support "foo bar baz"/" " as a syntax for string splitting, because I've used Python's way of doing things, and have also used something that works differently. But I cannot argue that Python should have mutable strings, because I've never used a modern language that has them, so I don't know what the tradeoffs are. Thus you don't hear me pushing for it. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
