On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 16:02:53 -0500, Gabriel Cooper wrote: > Ron_Adam wrote: > >>To me ":=" could mean to create a copy of an object... or should it >>be "=:" ? >> >>Or how about ":=)" to mean is equal and ":=(" to mean it's not. >> >>Then there is ";=)", to indicate 'True', and ':=O' to indicate 'False' >> >> > Not to mention "(_ | _)" for asserts!
Your ass is your identity function. Python 2.3.5 (#1, Mar 3 2005, 17:32:12) [GCC 3.4.3 (Gentoo Linux 3.4.3, ssp-3.4.3-0, pie-8.7.6.6)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> 25 25 >>> (_ | _) 25 >>> There's clearly some interesting biometrics research to be done here, although there is a well-known ass-capturing attack based on readily commercially available machines from Xerox that might make it hard to make an ass-based identity system resistant to attacks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list