Antoon Pardon wrote:
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"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds". Rules are made to be broken.


Like only use immutables as dictionary keys.

Fair enough, but don;t go advising newbies to do this.

Besides which, if you don't understand the language environment, rules alone will do you very little good. Try to focus a little more on principles and a little less on minutiae.


And what are the difference between those two?

Sometimes I get the impression that everything is a principle until
one personnaly finds the need to break it. After that it is a rule.

Principle: "Ten angels can dance on the head of a pin".

Minutiae: "Well, if they'd all recently been on a diet and they hold on to each other very carefully you can get 10.3. I got eleven once by adding a hash function".

regards
 Steve
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