Consistency in Python

[Fredrik Lundh]

Brendon Towle wrote:

> My third response is that it's *always* possible to shoot yourself in 
> the foot. Protecting a naive user from one particular metatarsal 
> projectile insertion at the expense of letting the power-user write more 
> concise code seems a bad tradeoff to me -- but, I'm not involved with 
> Python design, which brings me back to my original question above. Anyone?

what makes you think Python was designed for ex-LISP:ers who think that
they are more important than others ?

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