map vs. list-comprehension

[Sion Arrowsmith]

Tom Anderson  <twic at urchin.earth.li> wrote:
>On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Roy Smith wrote:
>> Even some of the relatively recent library enhancements have been kind 
>> of complicated.  The logging module, for example, seems way over the 
>> top.
>Exactly the same thing happened with Java.

I was under the impression that Python's logging module (like unittest)
was based on a common Java one, and it's complexity could be blamed on
that.

> if you look at the libraries 
>that were in 1.1, they're very clean and simple (perhaps with the 
>exception of AWT). 1.2 added a load of stuff that was much less 
>well-designed (with the notable exception of the collections stuff, which 
>is beautiful)

There are very many adjectives I could (and have) used to describe
the Collection framework. "Beautiful" is not among them. I think
the closest I could manage is "baroque".

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