Terry Reedy wrote:
Your experience has been different from mine. Thanks for the exposition. I can see why you prefer metadata to either be in the stream itself or as part of a wrapper object.
One of the things I've learned on python-list/-dev/-ideas is that the *kind* of software one writes regularly makes a big difference to what seems like a good idea. I tend to write fairly low level hardware control code, so that's the way I tend to think. Others come from the financial world or from an academic/scientific background or are interested in Python for education purposes or in building big frameworks that try to solve the world (or at least a particular problem space within it ;). It says a lot about Python's flexibility as a language that it applies so well to so many different problem domains, but it can lead to some interesting discussions when we try to align the interests of all those different ill-defined groups :) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia ---------------------------------------------------------------