On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 9:05 AM, kj <no.em...@please.post> wrote: > In <mailman.241.1288036400.2218.python-l...@python.org> Terry Reedy > <tjre...@udel.edu> writes: > >>On 10/25/2010 3:11 PM, kj wrote: > >>> Well, it's pretty *enshrined*, wouldn't you say? > >>No. > >> > After all, it is part of the standard distribution, > >>So is 'import antigravity' > > Are you playing with my feelings? > > % python > Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Feb 11 2010, 00:51:29) > [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)] on darwin >>>> import antigravity > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > ImportError: No module named antigravity > > Too bad, I was looking forward to that. >
Try it in Python 3. >> > has an easy-to-remember invocation, >>> etc. *Someone* must have taken it seriously enough to go through >>> all this bother. If it is as trivial as you suggest (and for all >>> I know you're absolutely right), then let's knock it off its pedestal >>> once and for all, and remove it from the standard distribution. > >>If you are being serious, you are being too serious (as in humorless). > > Guilty as charged, both in the "too serious" and the "humorless" > counts. :/ Blame it on the Asperger's. > > My only defense is that, while learning Python over the past year, > I've had *many* "you've got to be joking" moments while reading > what's ostensible "serious" Python documents (e.g. PEP 8, PEP 257) > as well as assorted threads featuring GvR and others involved in > the design of Python, to the point that sometimes I do have a hard > time gauging the seriousness of what's considered "good programming" > / "best practice" in the Python world. > This is a programming language named after a British comedy group (not the snake). There are going to be jokes inserted in lots of otherwise serious things. Like the standard library. > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list