Does anyone else not find the fun in programming...?

Tracy Ruggles tracy at reinventnow.com
Sat Jan 17 17:08:44 EST 2004


Jeff Epler <jepler at unpythonic.net> wrote in message news:<mailman.333.1074027727.12720.python-list at python.org>...
> >>> "fun" in "programming"
>  0  # DANGIT
> >>> "programming".find("fun")
>  -1 # ARGARGHARGH
> >>> "programming".index("fun")
>  ValueError: substring not found in string.index # F***!
> >>> assert "programming" is "fun"
> AssertionError   # I'm going home

curiosities = ("functional programming", "fundamental OO theory", \
        "defunct languages", "economic funnels", "fungal analysis")

["fun" in curiosity for curiosity in curiosities]



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