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From: Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com>
Subject: Re: PyWart: More surpises via "implict conversion to boolean" (and other steaming piles!)
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 17:00:14 -0500
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On 2/10/14 4:12 PM, Rotwang wrote:
> On 10/02/2014 18:45, Rick Johnson wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>>      3. Implicit introspection is evil, i prefer all
>>      references to a callable's names to result in a CALL
>>      to that callable, not an introspection!
>
> So, for example, none of
>
>      isinstance(x, myclass)
>
>      map(myfunc, range(10))
>
>      x = property(x_get, x_set)
>
> would still work?

I guess neither would:

     except ValueError:

:(

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Ned Batchelder, http://nedbatchelder.com