Follow these simply rules to become an accepted member of the Python community. ------------------------------------------------------------
1. Bash rantingrick and Xah Lee every chance you get. 2. Bash people who bash rick or xah because their basing made rick's or xah's words pass through your spam filter. 3. Post links to xkcd as often as you can. Don't worry if they have been posted a thousand times, just post them because it equals "geek cool points". 4. When the chance presents itself, make snide comments about lisp and perl; but NEVER about Ruby! (even though Ruby is Perl's micro minion!). 5. Use fancy words like "tail recursion", just because you read about it on Guido's blog once (even if you have no idea what that means)! 6. Engage in heated and pointless discussions as to whether Python is "pass-by-reference" or "pass-by-value" even if you have no idea what the hell you are talking about. 7. Play devils advocate often e.g., If someone hates Tkinter: then argue how great Tkinter is regardless of how much you actually care, use, or know about the module. Likewise if someone likes Tkinter: then argue how terrible Tkinter is and how Python does not need any GUI library; again, regardless of how much you actually care, use, or know about the module. 8. Use "e.g." as many times as you can! (e.g. e.g.) If you use "e.g." more than ten times in a single post, you will get an invite to Guido's next birthday party; where you'll be forced to do shots whist walking the balcony railing wearing wooden shoes! 9. Never use the word "previously" or the phrase "in the past"; just dumb it down with "used to". 10. Finally, if you get caught using the word "that" incredibly excessively, just hope that nobody notices that that that you are really GvR in disguise. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list