What does Python fix?

[Daniel Dittmar]

> I'm unable to understand why you wouldn't just write the code once and
> make it available, rather than implementing the same thing over and
> over.  [...]  Presumably this is a cultural thing
> that differs between the languages.  (And this is why Python not
> compiling to a single executable by default is a good thing; it
> doesn't strongly encourage the distribution of code without source.)

And why are there several GUIs and Webtoolkits for Python instead of reusing
the one glorious solution? I guess that's a cultural thing too: because it's
often quite easy (at least in Python) to write something which does exactly
want you want it to do.

Daniel