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by nemothekid 4338 days ago
To answer the OP's objection clearly - the usefulness of a single binary that works anywhere trumps any benefit from having a smaller binary, especially in 2014 when we have 1TB harddrives and 10Gbe connections.

Having python installed as a pre-req on most OSes doesn't even seem valid to me. For the project OP posted, any idiomatic python programmer today will most likely use the "requests" library, which isn't part of the stdlib.
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_ZeD_ 4338 days ago
Truth to be told, while "request" is a fine library, it's not true that "any idiomatic python programmer today will most likely use [it]".

A small, vocal minority sure use it, but I'm sure far, far many programmers (like myself) are perfectly happy to use urllib2.

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bradleyland 4338 days ago
Isn't this some kind of age-old argument? Shared libraries versus fat binaries (or some other jargon). I'm at a loss for the details, but this whole thing seems really familiar.
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