Does Python really follow its philosophy of "Readability counts"?

[Terry Reedy]

Russ P. wrote:
> On Jan 21, 9:34 am, Luis Zarrabeitia <ky... at uh.cu> wrote:
> 
>> But you keep failing to explay why do you need it to be _part of the standard_
>> library (or whatever).
> 
> Technically, it doesn't need to be. But if someone proposes using
> particular language for a major safety-critical project, the critical
> features realistically need to be part of the standard language or at
> the very least in the standard library.

Python is not an appropriate language who make a fetish of the standard 
library.  Numpy, which descends from code developed at US gov labs and 
agencies, and which would be essintial in many safety-critical projects 
being discussed, is not part of it.  And that had nothing to do with its 
quality.