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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:12:33 -0700
Subject: Re: Implicit conversion to boolean in if and while statements
To: Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Rick Johnson
<rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday, February 11, 2013 11:55:19 PM UTC-6, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 12:06 PM, 88888 Dihedral wrote:
>> > A permanently mutated list is a tuple of constant objects.
>>
>> I nominate this line as "bemusing head-scratcher of the week".
>
> Actually the statement is fact IF you can grok it through the eyes of clarity.
>
> "A permanently mutated list..."
>
> A list that has been mutated permanently, that is, it cannot be changed back into a list. psst: i have a sneaking suspicion that he his referring to tuples, let's see.

FYI, the general consensus here is that "he" (88888 Dihedral) is a
bot.  It posts in non sequiturs and fails to respond meaningfully to
direct queries.  A few months ago I posed an obvious Turing test for
it, which it failed.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.general/718489

Your naive effort to extort meaning from its nonsense is admirable, however.