I was just browsing what's new in Python 2.5 at http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/ As I was reading I found myself thinking how almost every improvement made a programming task I commonly bump into a little easier. Take the with statement, or the new partition method for strings, or the defaultdict (which I think was previously available, but I only now realized what it does), or the unified try/except/finally, or the conditional expression, etc Then I remembered my reaction was much like that when python 2.4 was released, and before that when Python 2.3 was released. Every time a new version of python rolls around, my life gets a little easier. I just want to say thank you, very much, from the bottom of my heart, to everyone here who chooses to spend some of their free time working on improving Python. Whether it be fixing bugs, writing documentation, optimizing things, or adding new/updating modules or features, I want you all to know I really appreciate your efforts. Your hard work has long ago made Python into my favourite programming language, and the gap only continues to grow. I think most people here and on comp.lang.python feel the same way. It's just too often that people (me) will find the 1% of things that aren't quite right and will focus on that, rather than look at the 99% of things that are done very well. So now, while I'm thinking about it, I want to take the opportunity to say thank you for the 99% of Python that all of you have done such a good job on. -Dan
Dan Eloff schrieb:
I just want to say thank you, very much, from the bottom of my heart, to everyone here who chooses to spend some of their free time working on improving Python.
Hi Dan, I can't really speak for all the other contributors (but maybe in this case I can): Thanks for the kind words. While we know in principle that many users appreciate our work, it is heartening to actually hear (or read) the praise. Regards, Martin
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"Martin v. Löwis"
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Dan Eloff