Python Standardization: Wikipedia entry

[Terry Reedy]

"Paddy" <paddy3118 at googlemail.com> wrote in message 
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|I would value the opinion of fellow Pythoneers who have also
| contributed to Wikipedia, on the issue of "Is Python Standardized".

Depends entirely on the operative meaning of standardized.  Formal 
standards body? Obviously no.

Specified in a standard-setting document? Yes.  In fact, in someways, 
Python is better standardized that C, for instance, in that the Python 
standard usefully standardizes some things that the C standard leaved 
unstandardized as 'implementation defined'.

Example 1. Order of evaluation of function arguments.  Python: left to 
right.  C: undefined (and unstandardized), I believe.

Example 2: Strings for Infinity and Not-A-Number.  Python: will standardize 
in 2.6 to hide the variation in C implementations (or is Microsoft just 
non-compliant here?).