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Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 10:29:56 +1100
Subject: Re: New user's initial thoughts / criticisms of Python
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On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 4:12 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber
<wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>>> -123 .bit_length()
> -7
>
>         No parens needed if a space precedes the .

Heh! I would call that an inferior alternative to the parentheses
though; it's so unusual to put a space before the dot that I wouldn't
consider it something to do in normal code. Anyone coming through and
editing would see it as a mistake to be fixed.

ChrisA