Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2006-07-18, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, tac-tics >>wrote: >> >> >>>Grant Edwards wrote: >>> >>>>for pete's sake use the comparison operator like god intended. >>>> >>>> if 0 <= i <= 10000: >>> >>>I'm assuming you used Python's compound comparison as opposed to the >>>C-style of and'ing two comparisons together to emphasize the fact it is >>>god's chosen way of doing this ;-) >> >>Pete doesn't like to be called god in public. ;-) > > > Interesting point. Does the phrase "for pete's sake as god > intended" equate pete with god? > > It's possible that pete is not god and yet god's intentions are > in pete's best interest, so something could be "for pete's > sake" and "as god intended" without pete being god. > > That said, "for pete's sake" is probably a just an cleaned up > version of "for god's sake", so I probably did call pete god. > No, actually you called god pete ;-)
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