[Python-Dev] configparser 1.1 - one last bug fix needed

[Tim Golden]

On 14/12/2010 17:01, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
>
> On Dec 14, 2010, at 3:38 AM, Fred Drake wrote:
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>> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 6:24 AM, Steven D'Aprano<steve at pearwood.info>  wrote:
>>> The good thing about that idea is that maintenance of buggy.py will be so
>>> simple!
>>
>> It's self-describing, and needs no further documentation.  :-)
>>
>
> And psychologically more effective than deprecation.
> Anyone writing "import buggy" probably feels like they
> have got some explaining to do :-)

They might be intro retro-robotics:

   http://www.anf.nildram.co.uk/beebcontrol/buggies/bbc_buggy/index.html

(For those not in the UK, this was a very popular schools
project kit on the back of the famous BBC micro initiative)

TJG