Python advocacy

[Cameron Laird]

In article <8a885s$2rl$1 at saltmine.radix.net>,
Cary O'Brien <cobrien at Radix.Net> wrote:
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>One reason that these extensions are so great is
>the event model.  Well, the right way would be
>to say that Tk forced Tcl to operate in an event-driven
>manner, and this allows things like fileevent and
>Scotty to be so slick.
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>I'm doing a little Python (via Zope) and the thing
>I miss the most is the tcl event model.
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I entirely agree.  The two things most distinctive
about Tcl programming--once one accepts that every-
thing is a string--are events and traces.

Very crudely, if you're feeling lonely in Pythonia
for event processing, look for a way to use threads.

Some argue that thread programming is inherently
superior to event programming.  While I don't buy it
<URL:http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-1999/swol-11-regex.html>
readers shouldn't be surprised to encounter it.
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