[Python-Dev] User's complaints (original) (raw)

Neal Norwitz nnorwitz at gmail.com
Wed Jul 5 01:49:13 CEST 2006

On 7/4/06, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

From actual users of the language I get more complaints about the breakneck speed of Python's evolution than about the brokenness of the current language.

Guido,

I'm really interested in your perspective here. I assume you hear far more "average" complaints from Joe Random User. Can you help give the rest of us an idea about the top 10 complaints/problems people have? I realize this will be subjective, that's ok. Perhaps we should try to focus our energies on some of these issues.

For example, we heard grumblings about the releases coming too often. Once we went to an 18 month release schedule, there was minimal complaining. It should be fairly safe to assume this silence means people think we are doing a good job. What are the things that could be fixed that would silence the most number of user's complaints?

n

PS. One thing I tend to talk to users about is stability of the interpreter. When I talk about crashing the interpreter, the most common first reaction I get is "you can crash the interpreter? How do you do that?" I take that answer as a good sign. :-)

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