[Python-Dev] Python language standard; LSB

[Skip Montanaro]

    Tobias> one thing that prevents the linux standard base to include
    Tobias> Python (or Perl for that matter) is that there is no formal
    Tobias> language standard with test cases. (For the LSB a subset might
    Tobias> be enough.)  http://www.linuxbase.org/futures/faq.html#scope

    Tobias> Exists there anywhere a rudimentary standard or are there plans
    Tobias> to create one?

None that I'm aware of.  Why is this important?  Many Linux vendors already
ship Python and Perl with their distributions.  In fact, several of them
rely heavily on one language or the other to develop their value-added
system administration tools.

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