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Re: What's wrong with this code?

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From Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com>
Date 2012-07-24 03:38 -0400
Subject Re: What's wrong with this code?
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 2:23 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> strictly speaking Python doesn't have variables, it has names.  This will
> possibly start a flame war which, by the standards of this ng/ml, will be an
> intense conflagration, hence the duck and cover.

The two terms are nearly synonymous when one talks about Python (and
both are used in the language reference).

I mean, what's so "strict" about the way you're speaking?

-- Devin

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What's wrong with this code? Stone Li <viewfromoffice@gmail.com> - 2012-07-23 22:50 +0800
  Re: What's wrong with this code? Andrew Cooper <amc96@cam.ac.uk> - 2012-07-24 02:19 +0100
    Re: What's wrong with this code? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-07-24 07:23 +0100
    Re: What's wrong with this code? Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2012-07-24 03:38 -0400
    Re: What's wrong with this code? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-07-24 02:26 -0600
  Re: What's wrong with this code? Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckhardt@dominolaser.com> - 2012-07-24 09:47 +0200
    Re: What's wrong with this code? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-07-24 18:24 +1000
      Re: What's wrong with this code? Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckhardt@dominolaser.com> - 2012-07-24 12:05 +0200
    Re: What's wrong with this code? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-07-24 08:26 +0000
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  Re: What's wrong with this code? Thomas Rachel <nutznetz-0c1b6768-bfa9-48d5-a470-7603bd3aa915@spamschutz.glglgl.de> - 2012-07-24 10:34 +0200

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