problem with str()

[Petr Prikryl]

"Alex Martelli" wrote
> Steve Holden wrote:
>    ...
> > >> Get yourself a stuffed bear, and next time you have this kind of
problem
> > >> spend a few minutes explaining to the bear exactly how your
program
> > >> can't possibly be wrong. Works like a charm.
> > > 
> > > A rubber ducky works much better for that, btw -- more easily
washable
> > > than a stuffed bear, for example.
> > > 
> > But stuffed bears are so much more knowledgeable about the minutiae
of
> > software design.
> 
> And yet, the key to Python's strength is duck typing -- if you can
teach
> the duck to type, you've got it made.

... and then (gradually) rather unrealistic communication dream 
called "Babylonian fish" can be replaced by slighly more realistic 
programmers dream called "Python language with natural language 
processing when programming" (buzzword DuckPython).