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I think this article is funny. Python's STL is way more useful and contains myriad useful things that Ruby lacks out of the box. difflib is probably my favorit
by parentheses 11mo ago
I think this article is funny. Python's STL is way more useful and contains myriad useful things that Ruby lacks out of the box.
difflib is probably my favorite one to cite.
Go see for yourself:
https://docs.python.org/3/library/index.html https://docs.python.org/3/library/index.html
The benefit there is that their quality, security, completeness and documentation are all great!
- matusp 11mo agoIf I would get a cent every time I solved a difficult problem in a project by pulling out difflib and shocking the team with it, I would have two cents. It's not a lot, but it's amusing that it happened two times already.
- zahlman 11mo ago"STL" is not an abbreviation for "standard library". It doesn't even correctly refer to the C++ standard library; that's a misnomer. There was only one STL, and it was third-party; saying "Python's STL" makes barely any more sense than saying "Python's Boost". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Template_Library https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Template_Library