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On 17/01/2014 09:43, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 8:10 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> Slight aside, any chance of changing the subject of this thread, or even
>> ending the thread completely?  Why?  Every time I see it I picture Inspector
>> Clouseau, "A BOM!!!" :)
>
> Special delivery, a berm! Were you expecting one?
>
> ChrisA
>

By coincidence I'm just off to collect a special delievry, of what I 
don't yet know.

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

Mark Lawrence