Python dumps core with this.. how come?

Aahz Maruch aahz at netcom.com
Sat Jan 22 19:30:51 EST 2000


In article <000001bf651d$f05ac240$132d153f at tim>,
Tim Peters <tim_one at email.msn.com> wrote:
>
>Guido gave some excellent semi-exasperated advice (similar in spirit to
>parts of Michael's advice that I've snipped) many moons ago, when the whole
>newsgroup was temporarily filled with msgs of this character:  he invited
>people to just *try* writing a Python program without using any __xxx__
>hooks.  I expect some people were amazed at how much easier their lives got!
>If he were to get that exasperated again today, I bet he'd expand his
>invitation to include avoiding map, filter, reduce and lambda too.

I assume that Guido's advice specifically excluded __init__; otherwise,
it makes no sense to me.
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