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On 10/12/2013 05:16, rusi wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 10:40:27 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> By the way, I'm curious. Why are discussions about object oriented coding
>> off-topic to Python? This is not a rhetorical question.
>
> Well OOP on the python list is certainly on topic.
>
> Interminable discussions about why redrawing the inheritance arrows
> the other way round will save the world is OT (for me!)
>

One of the great joys of reading this list is how wonderfully OT it can 
get.  I have the right to make this statement as I started *THIS* 
thread.  Now what *WERE* we talking about? :)

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence