Sunnan wrote:
...Because what is "boring"? The opposite of dense, tense, intense. Utterly predictable; it's like the combination of all my prejudices. Even before I knew, I thought "Bet Python separates statements from expressions".
Python is for terse, pithy prose; Python is not for poetry.
--Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I though that too, until Michael Spencer sent me the following executable Python limerick, which I declared the PyCon limerick competition and read as a part of my closing address:
# Freely re-distributable under Poetic License* # Voice only the alphanumeric tokens
from itertools import repeat for feet in [3,3,2,2,3]: print " ".join("DA-DA-DUM" for dummy in [None] for foot in repeat("metric", feet))
*thanks to Peter Hansen
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