( 2.31.New operators: 'eq', 'ne', 'last', '..' ) ?

[Mikael Olofsson]

On 20-Jan-00 Gordon McMillan wrote:
 >  Grant Edwards wrote:
 >  
 > > As long as we're at, I think we should try to make Python code
 > > not only more readable but also more polite. Rather than yet
 > > another imperitive language, the world needs more polite
 > > request languages!
 > > 
 > > I'm proposing the mandatory use of the keywords 'please',
 > > 'excuse_me', 'I'm_sorry' and 'thank_you'.  
 >  
 >  I have only one quibble. "Excuse me" is, in fact, imperative. 
 >  This is something that English hides, but becomes obvious in 
 >  German.
 >  
 >  Oh, and instead of "except please", it would be more polite to 
 >  say "thank you very much but please". And don't forget to 
 >  throw an exception unless sys.argv[1:5] == ['how', 'are', 'you', 
 >  'today?'].

Now we're talking!

/Mikael

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