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Subject: Re: Python (was Re: I did not inhale)
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On 2024-08-15, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Aug 2024 19:48:36 -0000 (UTC), Kalevi Kolttonen wrote:
>
>> The last I checked, the O'Reilly Python book is just absolutely
>> *MASSIVE*. The language has a huge number of features now ...
>
> No, it hasn’t. The core language reference spec is only a small fraction 
> of, say, the Java language spec.
>
> It’s just that you can do so many things with Python. And that is down to 
> the huge variety of off-the-shelf addon libraries that build on that core 
> language spec. It has to be a strong, very solidly founded core in order 
> to be such a versatile basis for these addons, and it is.

That's idiotic; you're saying that the standard library packages of
Python are not part of Python, and do not contribute to its size.

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