On Wed, 6 Aug 2014 05:13:07 +0000 (UTC) Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 2014-08-05, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > > Grant Edwards wrote: > >> Did I miss a news story? Have the parentesis mines all exploded > >> causing the price of parenthesis to skyrocket? > > > > The Unicode Consortium has been secretly buying them > > up for some time now. Pretty soon you won't be able > > to get cheap ASCII parentheses any more, only the > > fancy high-priced ones like U+2045/U+2046, > > U+2772/U+2773 and U+27E6/U+27E7. > > Damn. Time to buy some options... > > -- > Grant > No, no. Options use up commas, not parentheses. Maybe equals signs if you're feeling particularly verbose. Clearly there's a market for some sort of well-diversified punctuation fund. The only problem becomes listing it. -- Rob Gaddi, Highland Technology -- www.highlandtechnology.com Email address domain is currently out of order. See above to fix. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list