Fredrik Lundh wrote: >Tim Churches wrote: > > > >>>>also, ahem, to certain aspects of the Python standard library. >>>> >>>> >>>you've read the python style guide, I presume? >>> >>> http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0008.html >>> >>> >>A Foolish Consistency is the Hobgoblin of Little Minds. >> --often ascribed to Ralph Waldo Emerson but >> in fact due to[1] G. van Rossum and B Warsaw. >> >>[1] The convention that quotes are ascribed to those who first used them >>is, of course, a foolish consistency. >> >> > >in case you really got that backwards, I should probably point out that >the style guide reference was in response to the "certain aspects of the >python standard library" part of your post, not the "emerson said this" >part. > > I was indulging in the leg pulling which your reply invited, Fred. I think we both agree that the minor inconsistencies in various aspects of the Python standard library are of no consequence to anyone except the pathologically pedantic. Tim C
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