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Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 03:58:02 +1000
Subject: Re: Slicing iterables in sub-generators without loosing elements
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On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 2:44 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> What happened to freedom of speech?  If I want to talk to a bot, I'll talk
> to a bot.  Besides I'm not convinced it/he/she is a bot.  Plus if you read
> my post carefully, add in several years experience of Python the language
> and Python the comedy, you might come to the conclusion that a certain
> amount of urine extraction was going on :)

Coupled with a bit of bot-seeding, which is always fun.

One of these days I'm going to mail Dihedral a whole pile of Gilbert
and Sullivan operetta and see if any of it comes back in his posts...

Dihedral might be a bot and might not. I've come to the conclusion
that it's not worth trying to find out, given that a good bot can
outdo a lot of humans in useful conversation.

ChrisA