What Matters About Python?
Originally published at http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=41682
I return to this forum after a lengthy absence because it offers access to a community of well-informed, not to say opinionated, software technologists. I have just accepted an invitation to write a monthly column for the forthcoming Python Magazine, and I don't want to write only for existing Python users.
Other writers will doubtless handle the technical side of the language, though I expect I will have a hand in that area as well. But I am interested in providing a rounded source of information to a broad readership, and would like to address philosophical and social as well as technical issues.
So, what information about Python is the average reader looking for? Are Python users smug or self-effacing? Is there enough documentation? What are the warts, and what have you found Python to be especially good or bad for?