Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

Octavian Rasnita orasnita at gmail.com
Mon Jan 17 15:08:56 EST 2011


From: "Adam Skutt" <askutt at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!


On Jan 17, 11:01 am, Steven D'Aprano <steve
+comp.lang.pyt... at pearwood.info> wrote:
>
> I'm afraid that's precisely what I'm arguing you *can't* do -- there's
> nothing reasonable about equating the standard library with the language.
> Some languages don't even have a standard library, or for that matter a
> standard implementation.

And we're not discussing those languages, we're discussing Python,
which has an explicit policy of "batteries included".  As such,
criticism of the standard library is perfectly acceptable under the
name "Python", whether you like it or not.  Besides, it's inevitable
anyway.



"Batteries included"?

Python doesn't follow this policy at all. We can say that maybe PHP follows it, but not Python.

And if this is the wanted policy, why should it be "cheap batteries included" and not "strong batteries included"?

Octavian




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