[OT] Re: turn list of letters into an array of integers

[Peter Otten]

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 11:04:38 +0200, Peter Otten <__peter__ at web.de>
> declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
> 
>> Peter Otten wrote:
>> 
>> Brave new words:
>> 
>> > immortable
>> 
>> should be "immortal"
> 
> Readlines() isn't immortal... It's a lich
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lich

Wasn't there a Monty Python sketch where a man carrying a parrot in a cage 
comes into a shop full of stuffed animals and complains: No, I don't admire 
the taxidermist for making that parrot look like it were alive -- that beast 
bit me!