[Python-Dev] Standard library vs Standard distribution?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 01:45:17AM +0000, Oscar Benjamin wrote:

> They do include much more than we need so I'd agree that Anaconda is a
> nuclear reactor. The things I want from it are not though. Numpy is
> not a nuclear reactor: at it's core it's just providing a
> multidimensional array.

And a metric tonne of functions in linear algebra, root finding, special 
functions, polynomials, statistics, generation of random numbers, 
datetime calculations, FFTs, interfacing with C, and including *eight* 
different specialist variations of sorting alone.

Just because some people don't use the entire output of the nuclear 
reactor, doesn't mean it isn't one.



-- 
Steve