Don't feed the troll...

[Grant Edwards]

On 2013-06-18, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:38:40 +0000 (UTC), 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).
>
> And suddenly I have visions of a Druidical reading of the entrails...

Well, that might explain how some of the code I've seen recently in
this newsgroup was written.

-- 
Grant