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On 31/10/2012 10:07, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:33:32 +0000, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>
>> Absolutely bloody typical, turned down because of an idiot.  Who the
>> hell is Tim Peters anyway? :)
>
> I see your smiley, but for the benefit of those who actually don't know
> who Tim Peters, a.k.a. the Timbot, is, he is one of the gurus of Python
> history. He invented Python's astonishingly excellent sort routine,
> Timsort, and popularised the famous adverbial phrase signoffs you will
> see in a lot of older posts.
>
> Basically, he is in the pantheon of early Python demigods.
>
> stop-me-before-i-start-gushing-over-the-timbot-ly y'rs,
>

4 / 10, must try harder, the omission of the Zen of Python is considered 
a very serious matter :)

-- 
Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.