Python too complex ?!?!?!

Donn Ingle donn.ingle at gmail.com
Sat Nov 17 09:25:29 EST 2007


I dunno about your dog :) but Python libs are not too demanding. From a
Gnu/Linux pov with package managers things are quite simple.

My wish is to find a way to make that even easier because the packaged
modules are not always up to date. 

If the Cheese Shop could supply downloads of modules and we could stick on a
gui interface that wraps around import statements to guide the installation
of any missing packages -- that would be progress.

If you are online and the app runs, it can check the "freshness" of your
modules (those called from the app and recursively) and offer to fetch the
latest stable versions.

The gui is an issue. Does one TK or rely on some fall-back system of
gnome/kde/x11/windows dialogue boxes (ending in abject failure by way of
raw_input on the command line)? Or (perhaps) have it fetch a standard
dialogue library which would fetch and install what is needed for future
occasions.

Anyway, this is a bit of a hijack and I have not touched C# in any way, but
I don't think Python has anything to be ashamed of.*

/d

* Okay, maybe decorators but that's just because I am far too thick to grok
them :D





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