Steven D'Aprano: > With Python 3.0, GvR had the > opportunity to strip Python of all the features that makes Python easy to > learn, and he didn't. Python still has features that are easy for > newbies, and features that are powerful for experienced coders, and that > friendliness for newbies isn't going away. That's a good thing.
I think that making range, dict.keys, dict.values, filter, map, etc, return lazy iterables GvR has made the language a little less easy to understand for newbies. What's a range(n)? A function that returns a list of n items, from 0 to n. This is easy to understand, while xrange(n) is a bit less easy to understand (a generator or generators). Python is growing toward being more fit for medium-large programs, and less fit for being small, simple and easy. Lua for example is now maybe better than Python if you need something light to script a large C++ program, so the niche partially left free by Python that has gone "up" is being partially replaced by Lua. Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
