On Python cons
- Not having curly-braces on "if" statements and other blocks makes long blocks hard to read.
- I think this is mostly a red herring. First, you should not write long blocks to begin with. Second, I've used Python almost exclusively in a large project for over three years and this has rarely been a problem.
- Okay. But if there was one thing I could change about the basic nature of the language, this would be it. It can be very difficult to remember how many spaces you need to put, if you're adding a line after a complex series of blocks. -mkanat
- I think this is mostly a red herring. First, you should not write long blocks to begin with. Second, I've used Python almost exclusively in a large project for over three years and this has rarely been a problem.
- Poor Unicode handling--strings are ASCII by default, and are Unicode only if you prepend them with u, like u"string".
- I think u"" can easily be enforced as a coding policy. Depending on how ambitious your Unicode needs are, Python Unicode may not be enough for you. For Chandler we created PyICU to fix cases where Python's natural Unicode support falls short.
- I was trying to avoid having to enforce code guidelines, though. That is, that's one of the reasons we want to move away from Perl. I can check out PyICU though. -mkanat
- I think u"" can easily be enforced as a coding policy. Depending on how ambitious your Unicode needs are, Python Unicode may not be enough for you. For Chandler we created PyICU to fix cases where Python's natural Unicode support falls short.
- No standard way of installing modules like CPAN.
- There is: Python eggs. These are pretty new, though, so not all projects make eggs or upload them to cheeseshop (equivalent to cpan).
- Ahhh. Yeah, I've seen cheeseshop, but I haven't seen it integrated into *nix distros yet. -mkanat
- There is: Python eggs. These are pretty new, though, so not all projects make eggs or upload them to cheeseshop (equivalent to cpan).
- Python has no equivalent to Perl's "taint" mode.
- I know of some attempts at this, and I believe Zope has a sandbox thingy as well, so the situation is probably not as bleak as you think.
- This is really one of my primary concerns. Bugzilla is already used in a lot of situations that require strict security, such as US Government installations. I didn't find anything that would be adequate, in my brief Google search. -mkanat
- I know of some attempts at this, and I believe Zope has a sandbox thingy as well, so the situation is probably not as bleak as you think.