Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!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 0.074 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.86; '*S*': 0.01; 'subject:Python': 0.06; '21,': 0.07; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; '>on': 0.16; 'message-id:@4ax.com': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'subject:dependencies': 0.16; 'subject:import': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'url:home': 0.24; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'am,': 0.29; '-0700,': 0.31; 'fri,': 0.33; 'subject:the': 0.34; "i'd": 0.34; 'johnson': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'appearance': 0.36; 'bought': 0.36; 'charset:us- ascii': 0.36; "i'll": 0.36; 'nov': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'ian': 0.60; 'middle': 0.60; 'subject:"': 0.60; 'more': 0.64; 'bothered': 0.68; 'car': 0.72; 'drivers': 0.74; 'lack': 0.78; 'pouring': 0.84; 'subject:history': 0.84; 'oil': 0.91; 'received:108': 0.93; 'rick': 0.93 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Dennis Lee Bieber Subject: Re: PyWart: "Python's import statement and the history of external dependencies" Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 15:38:33 -0500 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn References: <066c46c8-a04d-4489-b15a-b603c1b1818b@googlegroups.com> <8661e407-4472-4208-97c2-f666f6502c67@googlegroups.com> <0bbe1c60-2b29-40f6-96e1-ac777f0c276f@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-108-68-179-121.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: 2.1.15 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: 21 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1416602326 news.xs4all.nl 2905 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:59278 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:81250 On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 12:23:48 -0700, Ian Kelly declaimed the following: >On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Rick Johnson > wrote: >> Are you also going to call drivers "fools" because they bought >> a "certain brand" of car only to have the airbag explode in >> their face? > >No, but I'll call them fools if they buy a car and the engine catches >fire because they never bothered to change the oil. > It's more likely that the engine will seize from lack of lubrication... Now -- if they were pouring gasoline into the oil sump to thin the oil so they can crank it over in the middle of winter, THEN I'd not be surprised at the appearance of a flaming fool -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/