Python Tutorial Was: Guido's regrets: filter and map

[Grant Edwards]

In article <mailman.1038374737.3016.python-list at python.org>, Delaney, Timothy wrote:

>> Technically, you can do everything with nothing but binary NAND
>> operators, so things like addition, subraction, etc. aren't
>> really required. That doesn't make it a good idea to eliminate
>> things just because they can be replace by more complicated
>> sets of operations.
> 
> Hey - there ain't nothin' less complicated than a binary NAND ... ;)

But the set of them required to fetch a web page is a bit
imposing!

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