2.3 list reverse() bug?

[Francis Avila]

Arthur wrote in message <26vmuvooh62ko48t7m8n2cumg0se7dd7v5 at 4ax.com>...
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>>Try reading this:
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>>    http://starship.python.net/crew/mwh/hacks/objectthink.html

>Generally speaking, it is hard to understand how someone's intutition
>can be flawed. It's just an "is".

<pedantic>
Clearly there is an equivocation going on here.  A distinction must be made.

Intuition (your meaning): Direct or immediate perception of truth.
Intuition (link's meaning): An unconscious or implicit conjecture or
expectation.

Certainly, by the first meaning, intuition just *is*: you either percieve
the truth directly or you don't.  No right or wrong.  (Philosophy: Aristotle
called this "simple apprehension", and he said the same thing about it: no
right or wrong.)

By the second meaning, however, one can certainly say that the expectation
is correct or not.
</pedantic>

By the first meaning, to say "one's intution is wrong" in the face of
Pythonic behavior is certainly an arrogant thing to say, because it implies
that Python is the template from which all language behavior is wrought.
I'm not prone to attribute such to others when another explaination presents
itself, so I offer the above distinction.

HTH.  Merry Christmas!
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Francis Avila