[Python-ideas] string codes & substring equality

[Guido van Rossum]

On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:

>
> I'm reminded of a joke. What's 9/2?
>
> The mathematician says it's 4.5. The scientist says it's 4.5 ± 0.1. The
> engineer says it's between 4 and 5, but we'll call it 6 to be on the
> safe side.
>

I think you missed one. The programmer says it's 4. :-)


> Apparently I'm an engineer at heart :-)
>

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