Daniel Wong wrote:
Ironic that you should mention it. He already mentioned it.
The time machine thing is pretty much a standard joke in the Python community, which goes to show how common it is for people to be pleasantly surprised by what Python already does. I think everyone's being a bit hard on Mr. Wong here. When you're new to Python, you don't always realise at first how deep and subtle a thing you're dealing with. I was guilty of failing to follow the try-it-first rule myself in the early days. I soon learned better. In fact, it works the other way too -- the transcript I posted was the result of me thinking "Doesn't that already work? Hang on, I'd better try it first to make sure it really does..." :-) -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
