Python Standardization: Wikipedia entry
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Mon Jan 28 22:27:33 EST 2008
"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?).
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