<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">I shouldn't let it bother me, but that "Sent from my iPhone" cruft really gets under my skin.</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(115,115,115);font-style:italic;line-height:18px"><font size="1" face="monospace, monospace">-- Carl Smith</font></span><br></div></div><div><span style="color:rgb(115,115,115);font-style:italic;line-height:18px"><font size="1" face="monospace, monospace"><a href="mailto:carl.input@gmail.com" target="_blank">carl.input@gmail.com</a></font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 at 11:17, Paul Moore <<a href="mailto:p.f.moore@gmail.com">p.f.moore@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 at 05:36, Christopher Barker <<a href="mailto:pythonchb@gmail.com" target="_blank">pythonchb@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> This is getting pretty off toipic, but I want to point out hat as a rule, Python has been critisised more for having too MUCH cnage than too little over the last few years:<br>
[...]<br>
> Finally, what the heck is wrong with datetime.now ?<br>
<br>
Surely what's wrong is the fact that it adds another item to the list<br>
of changes that people will complain is "too much"? The conservatism<br>
in Python's development is not a result of the core devs being change<br>
averse, or because of a policy of blocking change. Rather it's because<br>
*the user community* reacts so strongly when we change things, so that<br>
we feel that stability is what our users want, and try to achieve that<br>
while still balancing the need for the language to grow and develop.<br>
<br>
In a list like this, which represents only a tiny fraction of Python's<br>
user community, it's easy to misjudge the appetite Python's users have<br>
for change, because this is a self-selecting group of people who are<br>
interested in change. That's why the pushback on *any* proposal made<br>
here is to ask what benefits it gives, and why in the absence of good<br>
arguments for a change, "the status quo wins".<br>
<br>
Paul<br>
<br>
PS Personally, I'd love to add a lot of the ideas discussed in this<br>
list (although I'm "meh" about datetime.now, it's at best a minor<br>
annoyance). But with my "python developer" hat on I have to look<br>
beyond that and try to help proposers develop a good case for their<br>
suggestions (if indeed they do have sufficient merit). Just saying<br>
"yay, that sounds cool" doesn't do that, even if it's my personal<br>
instinct.<br>
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