Don't feed the troll...

[Grant Edwards]

On 2013-06-18, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 2:39 PM, alex23 <wuwei23 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> tl;dr Stop acting like a troll and we'll stop perceiving you as such.
>
> This being Python-list, we duck-type. You don't have to declare that
> you're a troll, like you would in C; you just react like a troll and
> we'll treat you as one. We never ask "are you a troll", we just ask
> "do you quack like a troll".

Indeed.  The "is he a troll" question is a discussion about internals.
And like many Python users, some of us do like to discuss questions
about internals (though we hopefully know enough not to depend on the
answers being the same tomorrow).

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