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Sat Jul 24 19:30:52 CEST 2010 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-July/102309.html

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Alexander Belopolsky
<alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote:
> There must be a good reason why traditional software development tools
> such as debugger, profiler and coverage are mostly neglected in
> python.

Most such tools are probably better developed outside the standard
library. There are many reasons for that, but I would guess that it
mostly has to do with very different development cycles for tools.
Tool development usually goes in quick bursts (driven by urgent needs
and perhaps improving tool developer skills) unrelated to the stdlib
release cycle (and releasing the stdlib separately won't make much of
a difference). Also tools often have rough edges, and the stdlib
(except for the stuff added before 1995 or so :-) has a high
perfectionism standard.

-- 
--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)

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