Michael Hoffman wrote: > To the contrary, I agree with Larry Wall that laziness is one of the > cardinal virtues of a programmer.
There's lazy and too lazy. You don't want to be too lazy to even get out of bed to code in Python. Of course, with Perl, that's entirely another mattress^Wmatter. > Would you argue that the language is superior because half of its > modules must have "import sys" at the beginning I wouldn't dare arguing about superiority. I was just stating your proposal didn't really solve anything. A good editor/template and .pythonrc already save you the typing of 'import sys' in scripts for the former and shell command for the latter. > Sorry, that's incorrect Alright, that was a bit of an overstatement. I should have said your proposal is perceptibly useful in those shell one-liners. The distribution of script and modules is another matter. As for my opinion, you've already guessed I don't perceive 'import sys' as an issue. Therefore, the special case of an implicit import of sys does not appeal to me. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
