Interesting article and discussion about Python's standard library

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Sunday, 19 May 2019 at 11:48:44 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> Rust is a really good model here. Python, Go, and D should 
> follow suit.

I don't think Python should not follow suit. It is in a different 
league.

I can trust the standard library to not contain malicious code. 
Buggy code is far less problematic than the possibility of facing 
trojans.

If I use code from a third party I will have to read and vet 
every single line of code to ensure that there is no backdoor.  
So that limit me to very short code segments. I've done it for 
crypto code. I'd rather not do it.

I'd rather use imperfect standard library code. You want code 
that has had many eyes on it and where the flaws are well 
documented when you install scripts behind firewalls of 
commercial entities.