Python's "only one way to do it" philosophy isn't good?

Lenard Lindstrom len-l at telus.net
Tue Jul 3 01:39:15 EDT 2007


Douglas Alan wrote:
> Lenard Lindstrom <len-l at telus.net> writes:
> 
>> But some things will make it into ISO Python.
> 
> Is there a movement afoot of which I'm unaware to make an ISO standard
> for Python?
> 

Not that I know of. But it would seem any language that lasts long 
enough will become ISO standard. I just meant that even though Python 
has no formal standard there are documented promises that will not be 
broken lightly by any implementation.

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Lenard Lindstrom
<len-l at telus.net>



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