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The general consensus seems to be that it was more readable than Perl and forced you to write more maintainable code at the right moment in history. Today it h
by proveanegative 12y ago
The general consensus seems to be that it was more readable than Perl and forced you to write more maintainable code at the right moment in history.
Today it has an abundance of libraries and enough competent developers to be hard to ignore.
To me the inconsistent naming in the standard library is a bigger flaw than the syntax, which is a matter of habit. Date and Unicode handling (the latter in both 2 and 3) follow closely after that.
- eeZi 12y agoMost of the inconsistent naming and unicode handling was fixed in Python 3.
- proveanegative 12y agoFair point about the naming but on Unicode handling I'll have to disagree with you. The problems of the kind described in http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/1/5/unicode-in-2-and-3/ http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/1/5/unicode-in-2-and-3/ are not difficult to run into.