Thank you all

I was just browsing what's new in Python 2.5 at
http://docs.pyth
on.org/dev/whatsnew/

As I was reading I found myself thinking how almost every
improvement
made a programming task I commonly bump into a little
easier. Take the
with statement, or the new partition method for strings, or
the
defaultdict (which I think was previously available, but I
only now
realized what it does), or the unified try/except/finally,
or the
conditional expression, etc

Then I remembered my reaction was much like that when python
2.4 was
released, and before that when Python 2.3 was released.

Every time a new version of python rolls around, my life
gets a little easier.

I just want to say thank you, very much, from the bottom of
my heart,
to everyone here who chooses to spend some of their free
time working
on improving Python. Whether it be fixing bugs, writing
documentation,
optimizing things, or adding new/updating modules or
features, I want
you all to know I really appreciate your efforts. Your hard
work has
long ago made Python into my favourite programming language,
and the
gap only continues to grow. I think most people here and on
comp.lang.python feel the same way. It's just too often
that people
(me) will find the 1% of things that aren't quite right and
will focus
on that, rather than look at the 99% of things that are done
very
well. So now, while I'm thinking about it, I want to take
the
opportunity to say thank you for the 99% of Python that all
of you
have done such a good job on.

-Dan
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Dan Eloff schrieb:
> I just want to say thank you, very much, from the
bottom of my heart,
> to everyone here who chooses to spend some of their
free time working
> on improving Python.

Hi Dan,

I can't really speak for all the other contributors (but
maybe in
this case I can): Thanks for the kind words. While we know
in
principle that many users appreciate our work, it is
heartening
to actually hear (or read) the praise.

Regards,
Martin
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