python is growing bigger and bigger!

[Michael Hudson]

leeg at techemail.com (bigpython) writes:

> i'd like to use python as a toolkit. but from version 1.52 to 2.22, it
> has become much bigger.

In what way?  The binaries are bigger, the library is bigger?

> why we can't have a thin python, just a core program and some basic
> libraries.

Because people wanted more things to be in the standard library.
"Batteries included" and all that.

If you're distributing your application and bundling Python, you're
expected to ditch the parts of the standard library you don't want.
There are tools to help with this.

> frankly, many people don't use such libraries now.

Not sure what you're referring to here.

You are, of course, free to continue using Python 1.5.2.

Cheers,
M.

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