[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 282 comments

[Guido van Rossum]

> This really isn't about YAGNI then.  It's about some customers' needs
> being too complex to handle in the standard library.

Why isn't that YAGNI?  To me it feels like this is YAGNI for most
users; we're designing a library module here, not a Zope component.

I'd be happy to find a different principle with a catchy name (maybe
the 80% principle or KISS are better) but I still think your use case
is pretty unusual.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)