I don't think that's really fair, considering they even had a _moratorium_ on language changes in place for two years: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3003/

I don't think that's really fair, considering they even had a _moratorium_ on language changes in place for two years: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3003/ http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3003/ And as for the standard lib, a lot of the additions e.g. in 3.3 is simply stuff that's been around and proven for years: virtualenv, mock ... I mean, I respect that you feel that way, but I just don't see the same sort of cause for concern I guess.