python not returning true

John Machin sjmachin at lexicon.net
Wed Feb 14 04:08:48 EST 2007


On Feb 14, 7:02 pm, "Terry Reedy" <tjre... at udel.edu> wrote:
> "John Machin" <sjmac... at lexicon.net> wrote in message
>
> news:1171437351.206085.236450 at q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>
> | On Feb 14, 5:45 pm, "agent-s" <shanek... at gmail.com> wrote:
> | > btw Steven you are so witty I hope to one day pwn noobs on newsgroups
> | > too.
>
> Sorry, but you are 'pwning' yourself here ;-)

And the referent of "you" would be .....?

>
> | Wit has nothing to do with it. The fact that you are a Python noob is
> | also irrelevant. Your problem statement was unintelligible, as is your
> | response. What does "pwn" mean?
>
> I believe that it is a misspelling of 'own' used by pvp (person versus
> person, as opposed to person versus monster) gamers to demonstrate their
> in-ness.  But perhaps agent-s can enlightenment us further.

So "enlightenment" has been verbed, has it? I didn't realise that the
language had been transitioned so far :-)

Cheers,
John




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