On 10/26/2010 9:05 AM, kj wrote: > Perhaps the disconnect here is that you're seeing the whole thing > from an insider's point of view, while I'm still enough of an > outsider not to share this point of view. (I happen to think that > one the hallmarks of being an initiate to a discipline is an almost > complete loss of any memory of what that discipline looked like > when the person was a complete novice. If this is true, then it's > easy to understand the difference in our perceptions.) > That can be true of most technical communities, and Python is no exception. As someone who does quite a lot of training the challenge is always to hold on to those outsider perceptions to avoid the learners feeling lost.
> Anyway, thanks for letting me in on the joke. I'll pass it on. > > (Though, humorless as it is of me, I still would prefer the ZoP > out of the standard library, to save myself having to tell those > who are even newer to Python than me not to take it seriously.) The answer is probably the same as you will see if you try from __future__ import braces That feature *is* available in Python 2.6 ;-) regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 PyCon 2011 Atlanta March 9-17 http://us.pycon.org/ See Python Video! http://python.mirocommunity.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
