[Python-Dev] User's complaints

[Michael Ellerman]

On 7/5/06, Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/4/06, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> >
> >  From actual users of
> > the language I get more complaints about the breakneck speed of
> > Python's evolution than about the brokenness of the current language.
>
> Guido,
>
> I'm really interested in your perspective here.  I assume you hear far
> more "average" complaints from Joe Random User.  Can you help give the
> rest of us an idea about the top 10 complaints/problems people have?
> I realize this will be subjective, that's ok.  Perhaps we should try
> to focus our energies on some of these issues.

Well here's one I stumbled across the other day. I don't know if it's
legit, but it's still bad PR:

http://www.gbch.net/gjb/blog/software/discuss/python-sucks.html

For the impatient, he's not at all bothered about the lack of obscure
language feature X.

cheers