On Jan 3, 8:37 pm, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> > wrote: > > It objectifies women. If you can't see how that's harmful to women, I > > haven't the stamina to educate you. > > And "import pickle" objectifies pickles. It's deplorable how few > gherkins become programmers, and I think it's because of these > immature jokes about pickles that have become entrenched in the Python > community.
No, no, "import pickle" is not about objectifying pickles, it's a sub- conscience Freudian phallic symbol! import pickle pickle.LONG4 # Only the blind would miss that one! pickle.load pickle.dump pickle.EMPTY_DICT # Using GvR's pronunciation But don't worry, *some group* is sure to be offended. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list