Article of interest: Python pros/cons for the enterprise

[Terry Reedy]

"Jeff Schwab" <jeff at schwabcenter.com> wrote in message 
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[snip discussion of 'with' statements]

| Yes, this seems to be the Python way:  For each popular feature of some
| other language, create a less flexible Python feature that achieves the
| same effect in the most common cases (e.g. lambda to imitate function
| literals, or recursive assignment to allow x = y = z).

This is a rather acute observation.  Another example is generators versus 
full coroutines (or continuations).  Guido is content to capture 80% of the 
practical use cases of a feature.  He never intended Python to be a 100% 
replace-everything language.

tjr