Do you QA your Python? Was: 2.1 vs. 2.2

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On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 19:36:27 +0100, philh at comuno.freeserve.co.uk (phil hunt)
wrote:

>IMO until Python developers adopt a policy of being very reluctant 
>to do this, many IT managers will be wary of using it in anything 
>other thsan toy projects, and Python's user base will not grow as 
>quickly as (IMO) it should.

Why? 

At my company we are stuck in the realm of Windows, and the IT staff must
constantly patch the webservers to keep up with security and bugfixes. A quick
check of the IT media will show management's displeasure over this continual
process, but it does not appear to have hampered the deployment of Windows
servers.

As a matter of fact, what seems to be more reliable is that IT managers will
deploy more of what they already have, what their developers are most
productive, or what their required component requires. If change rates were a
critical factor, no one would be deploying Microsoft's IIS.

As mentioned in elsewhere this thread, Java and VB, have and are undergoing
complete architecture restructuring, and they still are expanding their
territories.

Keep in mind, IT managers often do not think and act like developers.