Comment on draft PEP for deprecating six builtins

[Steve Holden]

"Roman Neuhauser" <neuhauser at mail.cz> wrote ...
> > From: "Steve Holden" <sholden at holdenweb.com>
[...]
> >
> > I  think it actually relates a little more to giving advice on subjects
you
> > confess not to know much about.
>
>     Not advice. I was expressing my opinion as a python user.
>
Well you are certainly entitled to express your opinion.

> > If you haven't come across the effbot before, you should know that he
tends
> > to be rude in this way. I think it happened when the parity unit was
fitted
> > to his main memory. Fortunately it does not stop him from being a
valuable
> > source of information on topics Pythonic. Every now and then he jumps
out
> > and bites a poster on the ankles due to simple crotchetiness, and then
he
> > will subside into inactivity once more, contemplating the innards of his
> > software in silent satisfaction.
>
>     Given the high tongue-in-cheek ration of this list, I'm now really
>     confused as to whether Fredrik Lundh is a bot, or if you're "rocking
>     me", as the Czech saying has it.
>

Well if he's really a bot then the joke's on me, because I exchange email
with him occasionally. I seem to remember you can see a photograph
purporting to be him somewhere on the web

        http://www.python.org/~guido/confpix/flundh-2.jpg

has-anyone-seen-the-timbot-around-ly y'rs  - steve
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