Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.redatomik.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.093 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.82; '*S*': 0.01; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'cookie': 0.09; 'english,': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; '>the': 0.16; 'message-id:@4ax.com': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; '+0000': 0.22; 'lets': 0.24; 'url:home': 0.24; 'switch': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'bigger': 0.30; '(my': 0.31; 'quite': 0.32; 'role': 0.34; 'trouble': 0.34; 'sense': 0.34; 'problem': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'add': 0.35; 'doubt': 0.36; 'east': 0.36; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.36; 'half': 0.37; 'too': 0.37; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'enough': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'called': 0.40; 'even': 0.60; 'our': 0.64; 'american': 0.66; 'between': 0.67; 'mar': 0.68; 'population': 0.68; 'subject': 0.69; 'usa': 0.69; '(uk)': 0.84; '2015': 0.84; 'day...': 0.84; 'subject:Practices': 0.84; 'that)': 0.84; 'government.': 0.93; 'received:108': 0.93 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Dennis Lee Bieber Subject: Re: Python Worst Practices Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2015 20:53:55 -0500 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn References: <87ioem8ftg.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <54f2c9c6$0$12991$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <8761ak7kxm.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-108-79-222-205.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 X-No-Archive: YES X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.19 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 34 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1425261249 news.xs4all.nl 2846 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:35379 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:86692 On Sun, 1 Mar 2015 20:16:26 +0000 (UTC), alister declaimed the following: > >The language is called English, the clue is in the name. interestingly >most 'Brits' can switch between American English & English without too >much trouble (I still have a problem with Chips) > Okay... Is that a reference to (US) Fries, or US usage reference to (UK) Crisps. Might as well add the confusion of biscuit <> cookie (my biscuits look like your scones)... And lets not bring up the subject of suspenders... Bonnets, boots, and lifts. A pub's a bar; a bar's a gate; a gate's a street > >Last time I was is the USA I had a local ask me which state London was >in! (heck I know they only bother with their own history but I though we >played quite an important role in that) > Well... when we've got states bigger than some countries... But yeah... I doubt if half the US population even understands what the "Federal" means in our government. {I'll take "Oxbridge" over "Bostonian" accent any day... But don't ask me to make sense of East Ender -- or "valley girl"... Had enough trouble once in Tennessee with the difference between "Ketchup" and "Catsup"} -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/