[Python-Dev] Two small PEP ideas

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat May 1 06:01:25 CEST 2010


Steve Holden wrote:
> The last time I was in a UK builders' yard I hear someone asking for
> "two meter pieces of two by four". At the time the UK was notionally
> metric (and the timber was planed to the nearest metric size) but the
> old names still survived.

Yeah, a 2x4 is still a 2x4 here as well. It's English, even the native
speakers don't really expect it to make sense all the time ;)

Cheers,
Nick.

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