Alex Martelli wrote: > Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... >>>> Get yourself a stuffed bear, and next time you have this kind of problem >>>> spend a few minutes explaining to the bear exactly how your program >>>> can't possibly be wrong. Works like a charm. >>> A rubber ducky works much better for that, btw -- more easily washable >>> than a stuffed bear, for example. >>> >> But stuffed bears are so much more knowledgeable about the minutiae of >> software design. > > And yet, the key to Python's strength is duck typing -- if you can teach > the duck to type, you've got it made. > > That's bearly a joke at all :)
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