Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-27 Thread Matthias Klose
Florian Weimer writes: > * Matt Zimmerman: > > > One of the appealing things about the Python language is their "batteries > > included" philosophy: users can assume that the standard library is > > available, documentation and examples are written to the full API, etc. which batteries do you mea

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-27 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 04:16:20PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Matt Zimmerman: > > > One of the appealing things about the Python language is their "batteries > > included" philosophy: users can assume that the standard library is > > available, documentation and examples are written to the f

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-27 Thread Florian Weimer
* Matt Zimmerman: > One of the appealing things about the Python language is their "batteries > included" philosophy: users can assume that the standard library is > available, documentation and examples are written to the full API, etc. Would this really be a problem if the minimal Python implem