In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > these days, most end users get their Python either with their OS, > or by downloading a prebuilt installer.
Oh, ok. I've just never heard such people referred to as "the distributors" before. It sounds like some sort of TV series! ;-) >> I guess I just don't get why the inclusion of the pysqlite wrapper >> is so exciting if all it's doing is changing the situation from >> "Python does not come with a DB, but you can install extra software >> to provide one" to "Python does not come with a DB, but you can >> install extra software to provide one". > > I assume you stopped reading at "just as they've included zlib, dbm, > tcl/tk, openssl, and many other standard libraries over the years." I'll assume you didn't read my post properly then, since I did no such thing. Never mind, it was just meant to be an innocuous question, and I'm certainly not disagreeing with the decision to include pysqlite. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
