while True or while 1

[Steve Holden]

On 12/15/2010 8:10 AM, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 December 2010, 21:38:47 Arnaud Delobelle wrote:
>> Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> writes:
>> [...]
>>
>>> Tres Seavers once told me a joke like this:
>>>
>>>    True = not not "Who's at the door?" # say it out loud!
>>>
>>> This was back in the old days of Zope 2.5 and Python 2.1, which
>>> didn't have True and False.
>>
>> I almost used:
>>
>>     True = "to be" or not "to be" # that is the question
> 
> That's wrong:
> 
>>>> "to be" or not "to be"
> 'to be'
> 
> You need to wrap it with bool() at least (even without interpreting 
> Pythons answer to the duality contradiction of consciousness for 
> now ;-))
> 
>> but didn't dare!
> 
Yeah, if Hamlet had been a Python programmer that play would have been a
light comedy.

regards
 Steve
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