[afiori]

my understanding is that the batteries included philosophy wasn't really successful. probably it would have been better if they had a smaller standard library providing core language-level functionality and then many blessed p packages that with independent versioning

[lmm]

It was successful at the time. Remember Python is nearly 30 years old now, and has always had the worst dependency management of any major language.

[thayne]

I don't know c++ dependency management is pretty terrible.