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On 27/02/2015 21:40, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 8:37 AM, Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> wrote:
>> Right.  In C and C++, instead of being the first slide, it'd be the first 3
>> or 4.  Between header file conflicts (especially good because the stdlib
>> itself has many multiply-defined symbols, duplicate header files, and
>> contradictory include path patterns)
>
> Yeah, Python has some issues with sys.path and how your local module
> can unexpectedly shadow a stdlib one, but at least the stdlib itself
> doesn't have any conflicts. I should not ever have to do this dance:
>
> #include <somefile.h>
> #undef SOME_SYMBOL
> #include <otherfile.h>
>
> But sadly, I do.
>
> ChrisA
>

As you typed the above up I wonder how many developers around the world 
were battling with the fun and games caused, particularly when writing 
cross platform code?

It also makes me wonder what idiot decided to use C as the language for 
the first Python implementation? Or was it written in something else and 
then ported?

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

Mark Lawrence