Why so few Python jobs?

[Cliff Wells]

On Monday 08 October 2001 12:39, Laura Creighton wrote:
> ><raised eyebrow>  Stock C++ has better libraries than Python?
>
> Irrelevant.  What counts is that they either already have the excellent
> C++ libraries or they know where they are and how to get them.

And then it takes 2 weeks to learn them, hundreds of extra lines of code to 
use them, and good luck debugging them.  I think I'd use SWIG 
so I could get efficient use out of those excellent libraries.

I'd have to agree that some of the Python libraries are not the best 
(although I've not had much trouble with them), however I'd be curious to see 
a comparison of actual development times of an application using C++ with its 
"excellent" libraries vs. Python with its "fragmentary, incomplete..." 
libraries.

Although libraries are extremely important, I think that anyone who focuses 
too much on any one aspect of a particular language is not seeing the big 
picture - the real test is in the development and maintenance costs of an 
application.  In this regard, Python is the clear winner.  I'll write my own 
damn libraries ;-)

Regards,

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Cliff Wells
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