beginner question: extending python types

[Kragen Sitaker]

Bob Horvath <usenet at horvath.com> writes:
> Jeremy Yallop wrote:
> > * Uwe Mayer
> > | I found Python lacking the type of a "set". i.e. an unordered list.
> > 
> > Use a dictionary, with the same value (1) for every key.
> 
> Is there any significance to the value 1?

It represents God, the eternal, life, light, and matter, in
contradistinction to 0, which represent Satan, the ephemeral, death,
darkness, and void.  It is also the multiplicative unity, which means
it's its own multiplicative inverse, and it is traditionally both the
first and second member of the Fibonacci sequence.  And that is only
the beginning...