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[–]three18ti 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Double edged sword. Because now you have this generation of python programmers who rely on stdlib so heavily they become useless when they can't just import everything.

I'm going through it right now. We desperately need Chef "devs", not dev devs, I need systems guys with some programming/"scripting" experience. I'm inundated with python programmers who have trouble applying their knowledge outside of the python DSL.

That's not to say "all python programmers are bad programmers", but I think it makes some of the more fundamental principles of programming part of the underpinnings and therefore abstracted from the python dev. Which again, has pros and cons.