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Re: Pipes

From Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject Re: Pipes
Date 2015-08-09 22:18 +0100
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On 09/08/2015 21:43, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Aug 2015 10:55:36 -0700 (PDT), rogerh906@gmail.com declaimed the
> following:
>
>>
>> Nevermind, I found it. Thanks for the pointer. But WOW! Python is described as an easy to learn language. I don't think so!
>>
> 	It is... The Language Reference Manual is only some 70 or so pages (I
> haven't counted the later versions; probably grew to 100 behind my back).
>
> 	But the LIBRARIES that do all the nice things for you so you don't have
> program the stuff from scratch may take some time to get familiar.
>

I assume that by LIBRARIES you mean the stdlib?  Once you've mastered 
all of them, a couple of hundred at most which shouldn't take more than 
a few minutes, it shouldn't take too very much longer to get to grips 
with the 64337 packages listed on pypi alone.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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Pipes rogerh906@gmail.com - 2015-08-09 07:10 -0700
  Re: Pipes Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-08-09 11:13 -0600
  Re: Pipes rogerh906@gmail.com - 2015-08-09 10:39 -0700
    Re: Pipes Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-08-09 11:52 -0600
    Re: Pipes Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-08-09 19:34 +0100
  Re: Pipes rogerh906@gmail.com - 2015-08-09 10:55 -0700
    Re: Pipes Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> - 2015-08-09 11:51 -0700
    Re: Pipes alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2015-08-09 18:55 +0000
    Re: Pipes Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-08-09 16:43 -0400
    Re: Pipes Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-08-09 22:18 +0100
    Re: Pipes Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2015-08-10 08:27 +1000
    RE: Pipes "Clayton Kirkwood" <crk@godblessthe.us> - 2015-08-09 17:44 -0700
    Re: Pipes Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-08-10 20:50 +1000
    Re: Pipes Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-08-10 14:44 +0100
      Re: Pipes rogerh906@gmail.com - 2015-08-10 07:05 -0700
        Re: Pipes Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-08-10 15:36 +0100
  Re: Pipes Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-08-09 14:17 -0400
  Re: Pipes "E.D.G." <edgrsprj@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-08-10 15:43 -0500
    Re: Pipes Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-08-10 22:59 +0100
    Re: Pipes Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-08-10 18:41 -0400
    Re: Pipes Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-10 21:48 -0700
    Re: Pipes Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-08-11 11:07 +0200
    Re: Pipes Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-08-11 11:58 +0200
    Re: Pipes Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2015-08-11 11:15 +0100

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