Phillip J. Eby wrote: > >(frankly, do you think there's any experienced developer out there > >whos first thought when asked the question "how do I create a tightly > >controlled Python environment" isn't either "can I solve this by tweaking > >sys.path in my application?" or "disk space is cheap, bugs are expensive; > >let's use a separate install", spends 15 minutes setting that up, checks > >in the result, and goes back to working on the hard stuff...) > > Clearly, we're not dealing with "experienced" developers, then.
the paragraph you're quoting used "experienced" in the context of "having solved this problem before". > Of course even now that it's easy to *do*, some people still gripe that > setting up a separate install is too "heavy". what forums are we talking about here? (if this kind of complaints were common on c.l.python, for example, I think I would have noticed...) > Anyway, while we're projecting about people's attitudes, what's with this > "Real Programmers Should Build It Themselves" attitude? because that's what Python is all about: making things so easy that every- one can build things with a minimum of effort, according to their specific requirements. "a lot of action in a small amount of clear code", as some- one once put it. that doesn't rule out helpful libraries and utilities and cookbook examples, but a "we have a prepackaged solution for you, it's the only solution you'll ever need, and you don't really need to know how it works" approach doesn't strike me as very Pythonic. </F> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
