On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 09:40:29AM -0700, Xuan Wu wrote:
> >>>tel = {'jack': 4098, 'sape': 4139}
> >>>tel['guido'] = 4127
> >>>tel
> {'sape': 4139, 'guido': 4127, 'jack': 4098}
> >>>tel['jack']
> 4098 ...
>
> I did quite some digging to confirm my guess of the hidden meaning,
> during which I realized it was initially written 27 years ago, without
> much change so far. Now I'm curious if its meaning is obvious to most
> nowadays beginners even as English speakers.
There's a hidden meaning? I thought they were just arbitrary keys and
values. Obviously "guido" comes from the designer of Python, but I
always thought that the rest are just arbitrary.
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Steve
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