[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 282 comments (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Fri, 22 Mar 2002 12:03:25 -0500

This really isn't about YAGNI then. It's about some customers' needs being too complex to handle in the standard library.

Why isn't that YAGNI? To me it feels like this is YAGNI for most users; we're designing a library module here, not a Zope component.

I'd be happy to find a different principle with a catchy name (maybe the 80% principle or KISS are better) but I still think your use case is pretty unusual.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)