A bit of Knuth, maybe. But this isn't unique to Knuth - many people have created tools when they weren't satisfied with the existing tools.
All frameworks would fall under "no good x, let's create x". He is a good programmer for sure, but comparisons with Knuth are a bit far fetched:).
Re:New Python Idioms
by jeffmiller on Sunday October 24, 2010 @05:36PM
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Yup. He's also creating a replacement for the Python logging module.
Which are generated with sphinx, which is a doc tool he created ...
I am smelling a bit of Knuth here. (No good typesetting, so lets create Tex.) :)