On 06/03/2008, Dan Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 5, 7:24 pm, Matt Nordhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > > Surely it would depend on the type of text: pick up any random English > > > novel containing dialogue, and you're likely to find a couple of dozen > > > pairs of quotation marks per page, against a few apostrophes. > > > > > That's an idea... Write a novel in Python docstrings. > > > Or better yet, write in Python syntax. > > > assert len([man for man in now_alive() if > man.remembers(datetime.date(1775, 4, 18))]) <= HARDLY > > lantern_count = {'land': 1, 'sea': 2}.get(british.location(), 0) > n_ch_twr.hang(Lantern() for _ in xrange(lantern_count)) > > if lantern_count: > for village in middlesex: > ride_thru(village) > spread_alarm(village) >
That looks ported from lolcode. http://lolcode.com/ Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list