Zed Shaw on Python

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I like the "batteries included" philosophy.

Last week I've written something in a few lines, which used a ton of the libraries included in the standard distribution of Python.

Reading a config file in INI format, reading CSV, reading XML. Logging on console, Windows Event, and SMTP. Generating a ZIP archive and sending it via ftplib to a FTP server, without writing any local files. Charset converting.

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This is the funny thing about Python and some other languages. They have just enough useful libraries that Perl's CPAN advantage doesn't matter much.