On Jan 14, 10:23 pm, Steven D'Aprano <steve +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> This is not Java, and we prefer Python terminology. > > A variable holding an int is an int variable. > A variable holding a string is a string variable. > A variable holding a list is a list variable. > A variable holding an instance is an instance variable. > A variable holding a class is a class variable. You went to a lot of trouble to prove nothing. Here allow me to retort: A box holding an apple is an apple box. A box holding a pear is a pear box. A box holding an orange is a orange box. A box holding an banana is an banana box. And a box that penis comes in is a vagina! > Guessing is for fourth-class programmers who don't know their language > and are too lazy to RTFM. Oh really. I don't know about you Steven but i am not JUST a Python programmer. I write tons of code with Python but i also write tons of code in many other languages too. Not only am i emerged in many aspects of the IT world, i have a WIDE scope of knowledge in many other fields and disciplines; all of which is ongoing because let's face it, the minute you _think_ you know everything is the second you become obsolete. But i digress... Making claims that obfuscated syntax and insufficient APIs are *somehow* the programmers fault, because he (or she!) does not have EVERY *SINGLE* corner of the Python library memorized, is quite preposterous. > At worst, we might agree that the datetime API is old and tired, and that > if descriptors existed back in Python 1.x then datetime.weekday could > have been a computed property instead of a method, but alas we've lost > the opportunity for this. Any changes to datetime need to be backward > compatible. Why? "print()" is not backward compatible? Face it, Guido has broken Python's cherry. She is no longer pure. You're acting like some over- protective father. WAKE UP! Python is a promiscuous little whore and she's on girls gone wild (Volume 4000) shaking her little money maker. We should at least profit from the immorality. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list