On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 3:55 PM, John Ladasky
<john_lada...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Shush! That's one of Python's most closely-guarded secrets! Every
> politician on Earth will want to learn to program in Python after seeing that!
>
Not really, the legal profession has known about this for centuries.
(Princess Zara, presenting Sir Bailey Barre, Q.C., M.P.)
A complicated gentleman allow to present,
Of all the arts and faculties the terse embodiment,
He's a great arithmetician who can demonstrate with ease
That two and two are three or five or anything you please;
An eminent Logician who can make it clear to you
That black is white--when looked at from the proper point of view;
A marvelous Philologist who'll undertake to show
That "yes" is but another and a neater form of "no.
>From Gilbert & Sullivan's "Utopia, Ltd", dating back to 1893. Python 2
continues this excellent tradition of permitting truth to be redefined
at will, but Python 3 adopts the view of the narrow-minded pedant who
still believes that two and two makes four. It's an opinionated
language, and that helps you to avoid weirdnesses :)
ChrisA
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