Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.albasani.net!news.stack.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.098 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.81; '*S*': 0.01; 'present,': 0.09; 'will,': 0.09; 'subject:question': 0.10; 'cc:addr:python-list': 0.11; 'python': 0.11; 'language,': 0.12; '24,': 0.16; 'believes': 0.16; 'from:addr:rosuav': 0.16; 'from:name:chris angelico': 0.16; 'terse': 0.16; 'tradition': 0.16; 'demonstrate': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'looked': 0.18; "python's": 0.19; 'aug': 0.22; 'cc:addr:python.org': 0.22; 'cc:2**0': 0.24; 'header:In-Reply- To:1': 0.27; 'point': 0.28; 'ease': 0.30; 'message- id:@mail.gmail.com': 0.30; 'arts': 0.31; 'continues': 0.31; 'really,': 0.31; 'another': 0.32; 'but': 0.35; 'received:google.com': 0.35; 'earth': 0.36; "he's": 0.36; 'subject:Simple': 0.36; 'that!': 0.36; 'two': 0.37; 'clear': 0.37; 'pm,': 0.38; 'anything': 0.39; 'most': 0.60; 'black': 0.61; 'helps': 0.61; 'john': 0.61; 'back': 0.62; 'show': 0.63; 'skip:n 10': 0.64; 'great': 0.65; 'legal': 0.71; 'truth': 0.81; 'adopts': 0.84; 'bailey': 0.84; 'gentleman': 0.84; 'undertake': 0.84; 'view;': 0.84; 'dating': 0.91; 'profession': 0.91; 'to:none': 0.92 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:cc :content-type; bh=6Xw3hoEKdUw3PAGYQQdn3GuV4eRpml327T9ImuZ7zZ0=; b=yap3ZACDEyQ9ef+jpcJ5NKewVJ3WLpg+8LgK1D58LxFgjV+b8MgGhSonjhigNfVmvm i+3oQGRJu49fCpfeRocjwLOhQ0vZNxlwtUfu9AvX4/gaRF7rU4JyQi40QTIEgknMFFEu k5dj1KmqDwtu1Y+z/baxsuVlRV/xeRcK8AVoh8qy0SJvYYXeEEd+ZH7+exH7bnSqIBv+ HeZY6vV4XA8VBCIrugnFI/05rqetFUkvBVmSNZ3bbh4QtHFgfuPEYJMzGofb2n8KSBbf LYzCaXD117XzpUv44wNFXsOWOsNIepwKaUdw3PtVeRncdxPidW844L+eCe+l8a72ri0a nHeQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.50.80.76 with SMTP id p12mr8160983igx.34.1408861323466; Sat, 23 Aug 2014 23:22:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 16:22:03 +1000 Subject: Re: Simple question From: Chris Angelico Cc: "python-list@python.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 24 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1408861326 news.xs4all.nl 2965 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:35071 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:76924 On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 3:55 PM, John Ladasky wrote: > Shush! That's one of Python's most closely-guarded secrets! Every politician on Earth will want to learn to program in Python after seeing that! > Not really, the legal profession has known about this for centuries. (Princess Zara, presenting Sir Bailey Barre, Q.C., M.P.) A complicated gentleman allow to present, Of all the arts and faculties the terse embodiment, He's a great arithmetician who can demonstrate with ease That two and two are three or five or anything you please; An eminent Logician who can make it clear to you That black is white--when looked at from the proper point of view; A marvelous Philologist who'll undertake to show That "yes" is but another and a neater form of "no. >From Gilbert & Sullivan's "Utopia, Ltd", dating back to 1893. Python 2 continues this excellent tradition of permitting truth to be redefined at will, but Python 3 adopts the view of the narrow-minded pedant who still believes that two and two makes four. It's an opinionated language, and that helps you to avoid weirdnesses :) ChrisA