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From: Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net>
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Subject: Re: how to get the ordinal number in list
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Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>:

> In computing, assignment and reassignment aren't at all problematic,
> and neither is printing to the console, so please stop telling people
> off for using them.

Printing to the console is somewhat problematic:

   >>> with open("/dev/console", "w") as console: console.write("hello\n")
   ... 
   Traceback (most recent call last):
     File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
   IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/dev/console'


Marko