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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Python (was Re: I did not inhale)
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2024 23:54:53 -0000 (UTC)
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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.