On 2013-06-18, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:38:40 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards >>On 2013-06-18, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 2:39 PM, alex23 <wuwe...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> tl;dr Stop acting like a troll and we'll stop perceiving you as such. >>> >>> This being Python-list, we duck-type. You don't have to declare that >>> you're a troll, like you would in C; you just react like a troll and >>> we'll treat you as one. We never ask "are you a troll", we just ask >>> "do you quack like a troll". >> >>Indeed. The "is he a troll" question is a discussion about internals. >>And like many Python users, some of us do like to discuss questions >>about internals (though we hopefully know enough not to depend on the >>answers being the same tomorrow). > > And suddenly I have visions of a Druidical reading of the entrails...
Well, that might explain how some of the code I've seen recently in this newsgroup was written. -- Grant -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
