Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

[Alexander Kapps]

On 17.01.2011 21:04, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
> I say probably not considering the availability of 3rd party
> downloads. What say you, Python community?

Available as 3rd party downloads:

XML,HTML,...
HTTP,FTP,SMTP,POP,IMAP/...
MD5,SHA,...
zip,bzip,...

and so on and so on and so on.

Remove them all just because they are available as 3rd party downloads?

The "Batteries included" of Python is just *great* and I vote for 
*more* not less batteries!

> And one more thing. Not all the Python programmers create desktop apps so a GUI lib is useless. Some of them use Python only for web programming or only for system administration.

Not all Python programmers do web programming, so please remove the 
useless HTML junk too.


Almost every beginner wants to do GUIs or at least some graphic 
stuff. Removing the GUI module from the stdlib would be plain wrong 
IMHO. But I don't understand the whole issue anyway. It isn't that 
you need to fire up your torrent client and wait 48 hours for the 
Python download to complete. Why remove useful (to many, not most) 
stuff from the lib?