Re: Python wart

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From	Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
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Date	Fri, 01 Nov 2013 09:32:56 +0000
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On 01/11/2013 09:17, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> I'm heading into town in maybe an hour.  I'll stop here
>> http://www.toolbankexpress.com/shop/castle/ so I can get an extremely large
>> pair of pliers with which I can extract my tongue from my cheek :)
>
> I think you may have a bit of trouble. The part where you demanded the
> language dynamically figure out what you wanted may have gotten your
> tongue rather stuck there...
>
> The neat thing about this list is that even posts like that can result
> in real solutions :)
>
> ChrisA
>

Absolutely correct.

This thread actually got me thinking[1].  There's a thread on Python 
ideas about "where did we go wrong with negative stride?".  It discusses 
maybe fixing this for Python 4.  I wondered if the idea of deprecating 
printf style formatting might also come up again.  It was discussed in 
some depth here 
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-February/116789.html

[1] yes it does happen, yes you may joke about it and yes I can take the 
jokes, I certainly deserve them :)

-- 
Python is the second best programming language in the world.
But the best has yet to be invented.  Christian Tismer

Mark Lawrence

Thread

Re: Python wart Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-01 12:54 +1100
  Re: Python wart Peter Cacioppi <peter.cacioppi@gmail.com> - 2013-11-01 00:11 -0700
    Re: Python wart Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-01 18:59 +1100
    Re: Python wart Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-11-01 09:08 +0000
    Re: Python wart Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-01 20:17 +1100
    Re: Python wart Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-11-01 09:32 +0000
    Re: Python wart Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-01 20:42 +1100
  Re: Python wart Peter Cacioppi <peter.cacioppi@gmail.com> - 2013-11-01 14:47 -0700
    Re: Python wart Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-02 10:13 +1100
  Re: Python wart Peter Cacioppi <peter.cacioppi@gmail.com> - 2013-11-01 18:11 -0700
    Re: Python wart Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-02 12:18 +1100
  Re: Python wart Peter Cacioppi <peter.cacioppi@gmail.com> - 2013-11-01 18:26 -0700

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