On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Joe Strout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Oct 17, 2008, at 10:35 AM, coldpizza wrote:
>
>> If you are using and IDE, such as Eclipse, PyScripter, etc, then CTR
>> +click on 'this' should do the trick.
>> In ipython you can do 'import this' and then type 'this??' Or if you
>> are *not* lazy, you could try locating the file in the Python tree.
>
> Oh! They're actually talking about a module literally called 'this'! I
> thought that was just a placeholder, like "foo".
>
> Interesting (and useful).
>
> As for examining the source though, it seems like it could be shortened up
> quite a bit now -- in fact all the source except the assignment to s could
> be replaced with the one-liner
>
> print s.encode('rot13')
Methinks you miss the point -- read the Zen, and apply its principles
to the "this" module. I think they managed to break pretty much all
of them, probably to illustrate a point, all in good fun. Tim Peters
rocks!
For more fun with the Zen, see this thread:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-bugs-list/2008-July/055857.html
Best,
Kurt
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