[bberrry]

That's been my feeling for a long time now. After getting spoiled by Pythons enormous standard library, other languages feel incredibly bare-bones and getting things done takes a lot more work. I wish other languages focused more on including lots of library functions.

[krylon]

Size alone is only half (at best) of the equation. What makes Python's standard library stand out is the way it is structured and documented.

Consider Java's standard library, which is huge. That last few times I did anything in Java, I spent more time browsing the library documentation than coding. Admittedly, I did not know the library very well, if one uses Java all the time, that ratio probably changes. In Python I don't need to know the standard library well, because the way the documentation is written makes it very easy to find what I am looking for.