Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jun 29)

[John Machin]

Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 23:45:57 +1000, rumours say that John Machin
> <sjmachin at lexicon.net> might have written:
> 
> 
>>Simon Brunning wrote:
>>
>>>On 7/1/05, Peter Maas <peter at somewhere.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Simon Brunning schrieb:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>   Sibylle Koczian needs to sort part of a list. His first attempt made
>>>>>   the natural mistake - sorting a *copy* of part of the list:
> 
> 
> [Peter]
> 
>>>>I think it was _her_ first attempt.
> 
> 
> [Simon]
> 
>>>Ooops! Sorry, Sibylle.
> 
> 
> [John]
> 
>>Obviously haven't spent enough time watching Fawlty Towers :-)
> 
> 
> Then surely it should have been "its" first attempt?  Aren't piranhas
> neutral?

Neutral: no, they always seem to be active combatants.
Neuter: one would hope so, lest they procreate.