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[Bart Nessux]

Elbert Lev wrote:
>>Elbert: you might get a positive response if you rephrased your post.
>>
>>"Our corporation needs functionality ___. We would be happy to pay a
>>contract consultant $n000 to come up with a solution that will work with a
>>future trajectory of Python releases."
>>
>>
>>David
> 
> 
> David!
> 
> I appreciated your sarcasm very much. 
> 
> I want to assure you that our corporation is perfectly able to hack
> code not worse then others can. But reading the postings, which talk
> about this issue I thought, that if this feature is "half" supported
> and is widely requested, why not to explain why it is needed.
> 
> IMHO the most attractive feature of Python is not its syntax, but the
> library and the size of distribution. In fact, straight from the box
> 8-9 MB distribution is sufficient to solve many everyday
> programming/administration problems. This is good, but can be
> improved. There are some needed pieces missing in standard
> distribution and this is one of them. By the way I (almost) do not
> care about the speed: it is reasonable right now, can be improved, by
> proper data structure/algorithm selection and if one really needs
> speed – C is available.
> 
> I suggest start discussing additions to the library. This will improve
> the package and make it easier to administer.
> 
> 
>>Or you could pray to the OSS gods.
> 
> 
> All is about language acceptance.
> 
> In my daily programming activities there are several alternatives to
> Python, f.e. Java or .NET with their comprehensive libraries of
> classes (much richer then Python's). And what stops me from using it?
> The size of the distributive! I understand that adding too much will
> result in an increase of the size of distribution, but something has
> to be done.

Having never used Java or .NET... how do they compare in size to Python? 
I've found that the standard Python download works for me in 95% of the 
tasks in Windows (sys admin tasks). But sometimes I need Hammond's win32 
extensions, but only rarely. I've also used the pexpect module a lot... 
I wish that would be integrated into the main distro, but overall, I'm 
very pleased with the balance of bang for the buck...

Oh, I forgot, Python is free. Perhaps the developers are willing to 
provide a refund to dissatisfied users ;)