[Python-Dev] PEP 3148 ready for pronouncement

[Georg Brandl]

Am 24.05.2010 01:51, schrieb Greg Ewing:
> Brian Quinlan wrote:
> 
>> The good news in this case is that the same API has been used 
>> successfully in Java and C++ for years so it is unlikely that any major 
>> changes will need to be made.
> 
> That doesn't follow. An API that's appropriate for Java or
> C++ is not necessarily appropriate for Python. Slavishly
> copying an API from another language is often not the best
> approach when designing an API for a Python module.

*cough* unittest *cough*

Georg

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