Brilliant or insane code?

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I've just come across this 
http://www.stavros.io/posts/brilliant-or-insane-code/ as a result of 
this http://bugs.python.org/issue23695

Any and all opinions welcomed, I'm chickening out and sitting firmly on 
the fence.

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

Mark Lawrence

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Brilliant or insane code? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-03-18 00:35 +0000
  Re: Brilliant or insane code? Dan Sommers <dan@tombstonezero.net> - 2015-03-18 01:14 +0000
    Re: Brilliant or insane code? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-03-18 13:25 +1100
      Re: Brilliant or insane code? Dan Sommers <dan@tombstonezero.net> - 2015-03-18 03:06 +0000
    Re: Brilliant or insane code? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-03-18 08:59 -0600
    Re: Brilliant or insane code? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-03-18 15:20 +0000

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