John Salerno wrote: > Pardon my naivety, you would think maybe I'd understand this by now, but > I've always kind of wondered about it. I've been curious why one of the > biggest points used to promote Python is that it has "batteries > included." True, this is a great feature, but the way it's been used > seems to suggest that other languages *don't* have this benefit. And > maybe they don't, in their own way. > > So my question is, what is the difference between Python's 'batteries' > (standard modules), and C#'s framework?
I can't speak for C#'s framework but Python has a lot of modules that other languages may not, such as zip/bzip archive handling, unit testing, database interface modules, pretty much any network protocol you might need, both types of XML handling, etc. For many tasks, it's complete as-is, and that's a point worth selling. I don't think it's as good as some people make out, though. Multimedia support is poor - OpenGL support should have gone in many, many versions ago, and presumably one of the trillion incarnations of libraries for fast mathematics should have gone in too in order to enable that. PyGame could possibly have gone in too (not sure about the license however). -- Ben Sizer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
