[Python-Dev] Re: 2.4 news reaches interesting places

[Anthony Baxter]

On Friday 10 December 2004 06:25, Delaney, Timothy C (Timothy) wrote:
> Michael Hudson wrote:
> > Anthony's Australian, people expect this sort of thing from him :)
>
> As another Australian, I think that "Making Python Not Suck" implies
> that if you don't do extra things, Python Sucks.
>
> This is not a good thing IMO.
>
> "Making Python Suck Less" would be even worse.

Don't worry - it will have a nice friendly title by the time I present it.
I'm currently aiming for OSCON, which isn't until August. It's going
to be aimed at people who _know_ Python, but aren't necessarily 
experts, and focus not just on performance, but maintainable and 
sane code (for instance, not many people seem to realise that 
__del__ methods are almost always not the right answer to a problem).

> How about "Python - You Can Have Your Cake And Eat It Too".

Nah - I have a bunch of ideas kicking around in my head, something
will pop out. I doubt I'll ever be able to top the title of my pycon talk,
though... 

Anthony