Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Mark Lawrence Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: [Off-topic] Requests author discusses MentalHealthError exception Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 16:21:37 +0000 Lines: 48 Message-ID: References: <56d16e6a$0$1593$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <56d5cbef$0$22142$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <56d7a130$0$1611$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <001f2539-6872-489a-af38-a7fc534d6ecc@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de NtQGVVC0KF8RpvvspL0BQAu/Loj1fEj22AzdTxiZrnjA== Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.013 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.97; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:: [': 0.03; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.05; 'of)': 0.09; 'question?': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'thread': 0.10; '(at': 0.13; 'thursday,': 0.13; 'thu,': 0.15; '2016': 0.16; 'infinity': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:io': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'received:psf.io': 0.16; 'subject:exception': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; 'differ': 0.18; 'language': 0.19; 'subject:] ': 0.19; '>>>': 0.20; 'lawrence': 0.22; 'am,': 0.23; 'academic': 0.23; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.24; 'discussion': 0.24; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'header:X -Complaints-To:1': 0.26; '17th': 0.29; 'hour.': 0.29; 'starts': 0.29; "i'm": 0.30; 'standards': 0.30; 'strongly': 0.30; 'certain': 0.31; 'language.': 0.32; "d'aprano": 0.33; 'mass': 0.33; 'steven': 0.33; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.36; 'received:org': 0.37; 'starting': 0.37; 'drop': 0.38; 'sure': 0.39; 'subject:-': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'mark': 0.40; 'some': 0.40; 'your': 0.60; 'entire': 0.61; 'charset:windows-1252': 0.62; 'different': 0.63; 'our': 0.64; 'march': 0.64; 'world': 0.64; 'mar': 0.65; 'choose': 0.68; 'subject:skip:M 10': 0.72; 'url:htm': 0.75; 'william': 0.79; 'century': 0.84; 'grain': 0.84; 'pythonistas,': 0.84; 'subject:author': 0.84; 'utc+5:30,': 0.84; 'absolutely': 0.88; '"how': 0.91; 'hand,': 0.97 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.234.182.166 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 In-Reply-To: <001f2539-6872-489a-af38-a7fc534d6ecc@googlegroups.com> X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:103976 On 03/03/2016 03:57, Rustom Mody wrote: > On Thursday, March 3, 2016 at 7:59:13 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> On Thu, 3 Mar 2016 04:02 am, Rustom Mody wrote: >> >>> And how is [1]'s starting different from Kenneth's finding his weight >>> to be the weight of the universe? >> >> Is that a trick question? >> >> "How is a raven like a writing desk?" >> >> "Neither of them are made of cheese cake." >> >> We can be absolutely certain that Kenneth weighs less than the entire >> universe. We don't even need a set of scales. > > No trick > > William Blake starts Auguries of Innocence with: > > To see a world in a grain of sand, > And a heaven in a wild flower, > Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, > And eternity in an hour. > > Reading the whole at http://www.artofeurope.com/blake/bla3.htm > would make this discussion less academic > > Kenneth (at some point) felt he had the mass of the universe. > > So you can choose (one/some of) > > 1. Kenneth is like Blake > 2. Blake is a lunatic > 3. Standards of lunacy differ from 17th century to now > I object most strongly to the use of the word "lunatic". Can we please drop this thread as I'm, and I'm sure others, are finding it extremely hurtful. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence