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[Fredrik Lundh]

Tim Churches wrote:

>>> also, ahem, to certain aspects of the Python standard library.
>>
>> you've read the python style guide, I presume?
>>
>>     http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0008.html
>
> A Foolish Consistency is the Hobgoblin of Little Minds.
>     --often ascribed to Ralph Waldo Emerson but
>       in fact due to[1] G. van Rossum and B Warsaw.
>
> [1] The convention that quotes are ascribed to those who first used them
> is, of course, a foolish consistency.

in case you really got that backwards, I should probably point out that
the style guide reference was in response to the "certain aspects of the
python standard library" part of your post,  not the "emerson said this"
part.

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