Eureka moments in Python

[Sion Arrowsmith]

Paul McGuire <ptmcg at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>On Mar 13, 2:16 am, Steven D'Aprano <s... at REMOVEME.cybersource.com.au>
>wrote:
>> I'd be interested in hearing people's stories of Eureka moments in Python,
>> moments where you suddenly realise that some task which seemed like it
>> would be hard work was easy with Python.
>The day I wrote a CORBA method intercepter in 8 lines of code [ ... ]

This is more a "batteries included" eureka moment than a Python one,
but writing a fetchmail substitute in 6 lines was an eye-opener.

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