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On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 8:51 AM, Fillmore <fillmore_remove@hotmail.com> wrote:
> the question is: at which point did the language designers decide to betray
> the
> "path of least surprise" principle and create a 'discontinuity' in the
> language?
> Open to the idea that I am getting something fundamentally wrong. I'm new to
> Python...

Can you please simplify your example and show what the discontinuity
is you're referring to? You keep messing with eval and split and
stuff, and then looking at the types of things. Which part are you
surprised at?

ChrisA