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On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:38:40 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards
<invalid@invalid.invalid> declaimed the following:

>On 2013-06-18, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 2:39 PM, alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> tl;dr Stop acting like a troll and we'll stop perceiving you as such.
>>
>> This being Python-list, we duck-type. You don't have to declare that
>> you're a troll, like you would in C; you just react like a troll and
>> we'll treat you as one. We never ask "are you a troll", we just ask
>> "do you quack like a troll".
>
>Indeed.  The "is he a troll" question is a discussion about internals.
>And like many Python users, some of us do like to discuss questions
>about internals (though we hopefully know enough not to depend on the
>answers being the same tomorrow).

	And suddenly I have visions of a Druidical reading of the entrails...
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