[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > John Salerno wrote: > >>But isn't Python sort of known for the opposite, i.e. 'one simple way', >>or something to that effect? > > > The Python language is clear and concise and so I don't think takes > long to learn.
To learn the "basics", no. To really grasp all you can do with it - talking about expressivity and black magic -, this takes *much* more time. Think of all you can do with decorators, descriptors, metaclasses, closures, etc... > But there's so many libraries and packages available > that I'll probably never use more than a fraction of them. This is > good thing because I can ignore what I don't need. Well, I found myself reinventing the (square) wheel(tm) so many times - I wrote a csv package before noticing there was a much better one the standard lib - that I don't think it would be wise to ignore too much... Just my 2 cents... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list