QOTW: "Excessive cleverness can lead to unmaintainable code. So can
excessive stupidity." -- Alan Morgan
"Also Python code is pretty bare-metal, so that file.write or
socket.write go to the syscall immediately. Try that in Java and you'll
find 30 layers of complex abstractions for doubtful benef
QOTW: "[The state pattern] can be very confusing for newbies and peoples
having no experience with *dynamic* languages, and I guess control-freaks
and static-typing-addicts would runaway screaming. But I like it anyway
!-)" - bruno desthuilliers
"[D]ubious Python hacks that should never be used
QOTW: "The IEEE-754 standard doesn't wholly define output conversions, and
explicitly allows that a conforming implementation may produce any digits
whatsoever at and after the 18th signficant digit, when converting a 754
double to string. In practice, all implementations I know of that exploit
t
QOTW: "*what* the value is is defined by the operations that the object
supports (via its type).
*how* the value is represented inside the object is completely
irrelevant; a Python implementation may use electric charges in small
capacitors, piles of rocks, diapers,or an endless supply of small
