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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