Isn't it fascinating that a meaningless piece of code used to illustrate something can be analyzed as if it was full of malicious content?
Yes, my choice of names was as expected. The numbers chosen had no special meaning other than choosing one number in each of three equivalence classes. But, if you want me to add subtle meaning for generations to examine as it it were a literary work, I offer this: Peter and Paul were studs who got Mary'd. Can we now go back to our regularly scheduled talking about aspects of a computer language? P.S. And just for history, Paul was really Noel Paul Stookey but Peter, Paul & Mary sounded more like new testament characters and I think Noel signifies a birth to Peter and Mary, sort of, which might have fit too unless it was a computer program where a name with an umlaut was once not common. Another interpretation is that Noel came from the Latin word for news. Be that as it may, and I have no interest in this topic, in the future I may use the ever popular names of Primus, Secundus and Tertius and get blamed for using Latin. -----Original Message----- From: Python-list <python-list-bounces+avi.e.gross=gmail....@python.org> On Behalf Of DL Neil via Python-list Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2023 4:58 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Newline (NuBe Question) On 11/27/2023 12:48 AM, Chris Angelico via Python-list wrote: > On Sun, 26 Nov 2023 at 21:08, Michael F. Stemper via Python-list > <python-list@python.org> wrote: >> >> On 24/11/2023 21.45, avi.e.gr...@gmail.com wrote: >>> Grizz[l]y, >>> >>> I think the point is not about a sorted list or sorting in general It is >>> about reasons why maintaining a data structure such as a list in a program >>> can be useful beyond printing things once. There are many possible examples >>> such as having a list of lists containing a record where the third item is a >>> GPA for the student and writing a little list comprehension that selects a >>> smaller list containing only students who are Magna Cum Laude or Summa Cum >>> Laude. >>> >>> studs = [ >>> ["Peter", 82, 3.53], >>> ["Paul", 77, 2.83], >>> ["Mary", 103, 3.82] >>> ] >> >> I've seen Mary, and she didn't look like a "stud" to me. >> > > That's what happens when you abbreviate "student" though :) Don't > worry, there's far FAR worse around the place, and juvenile brains > will always find things to snigger at, usually in mathematical > libraries with "cumulative" functions. The OP used an abbreviation: "studs". Why? Too lazy to type the full word? Abbreviation has full-meaning in the (narrow) domain? Was wanting something funny, or to snigger over? Was the respondent sniggering? Perhaps he, like the OP, was also saving typing-time by making a joke, hoping that the OP would see the implicit-error in expecting others to understand that "studs" meant "students"? Actually, Peter, Paul, and Mary were a band (https://www.peterpaulandmary.com/), so "studs" is even less expressive when the data also tells a story... Working with "trainees", I avoid the word "student" even though some might see them as synonyms. In my mind, the abbreviation did not readily expand to the full word (mea culpa). Accordingly, would not pass Code Review! For the want of a few characters... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Want_of_a_Nail) -- Regards =dn -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list