On 4/5/2016 18:55, Guido van Rossum wrote:
My last/only comment in the discussion
was about there possibly being a dichotomy between people who use
Python for scripting and those who use it to write more substantial
programs (I'm trying not to judge one group more important than
another -- I'm just observing there seem to be these two groups). But
I didn't stick around long enough to watch for responses to this idea.
This was all but ignored.
The opinions mentioned in the thread, without throwing my opinion behind
any of them were:
* pathlib should be improved (specifically by making it inherit from str)
* the stdlib should be made to deal with pathlib without changing pathlib
* pathlib is redundant to third party modules which work better
* the continued existence of pathlib was briefly discussed
You can insert the never-ending arguments for and against each of those
points in your head - none of them were particularly convincing (in that
i don't think anyone changed their position.)
the split between utility scripting and application development was not
really discussed.
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