From guido@cj20424-a.reston1.va.home.com Fri May 19 07:26:16 2000 . . . Alex, it's disappointing to me too! There just isn't anything currently in the library to do this, and I haven't written apps that needs this often enough to have a good feel for what kind of abstraction is needed. However perhaps we can come up with a design for something better? Do you have a suggestion here? Review: Alex and I have so far presented the Tcl way. We're still a bit off-balance at the generosity of spirit that's listen- ing to us so respectfully. Still ahead is the hard work of designing an interface or higher-level abstraction that's right for Python. The good thing, of course, is that this is absolutely not a language issue at all. Python is more than sufficiently expressive for this matter. All we're doing is working to insert the right thing in the (a) library. I agree with your comment that higher-level abstractions around OS stuff are needed -- I learned system programming long ago, in C, and I'm "happy enough" with the current state of affairs, but I agree that for many people this is a problem, and there's no reason why Python couldn't do better... I've got a whole list of "higher-level abstractions around OS stuff" that I've been collecting. Maybe I'll make it fit for others to see once we're through this affair ... --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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