Pipes
Mark Lawrence
breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Sun Aug 9 17:18:39 EDT 2015
On 09/08/2015 21:43, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Aug 2015 10:55:36 -0700 (PDT), rogerh906 at gmail.com declaimed the
> following:
>
>>
>> Nevermind, I found it. Thanks for the pointer. But WOW! Python is described as an easy to learn language. I don't think so!
>>
> It is... The Language Reference Manual is only some 70 or so pages (I
> haven't counted the later versions; probably grew to 100 behind my back).
>
> But the LIBRARIES that do all the nice things for you so you don't have
> program the stuff from scratch may take some time to get familiar.
>
I assume that by LIBRARIES you mean the stdlib? Once you've mastered
all of them, a couple of hundred at most which shouldn't take more than
a few minutes, it shouldn't take too very much longer to get to grips
with the 64337 packages listed on pypi alone.
--
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.
Mark Lawrence
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