the Gravity of Python 2

[Roy Smith]

On Thursday, January 9, 2014 3:35:05 PM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote:
> In fact, I've given end users the ability to enter strftime strings (eg
> to construct a filename), and it's worked just fine.

I assume you realize that "../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd" is a valid strftime() format specifier? :-)

But, to answer your question, no, I have nothing against small languages, per-se (and I've done plenty of regex work).  But, if my goal is to print a time in some human-readable form:

>>> print t

is a lot easier than anything involving strftime().