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From: Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 02:12:12 +0100
Subject: Re: Bug reports [was Re: Python list code of conduct]
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On 3 July 2013 01:52, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> If you are a beginner to a programming language, assume that anything
> that doesn't work the way you expect is a bug in YOUR code, or YOUR
> understanding, not in the language.

Not just beginners. Out of the hundreds of times where I've gone "this
*can't* make sense", I think only one -maybe two- was an actual bug in
Python.