Python was designed (was Re: Multi-threading in Python vs Java)

[Ethan Furman]

On 10/17/2013 01:57 PM, Ned Batchelder wrote:
>
> Read and listen more.  Write and say less.

Mark Janssen has no interest in learning.  From a thread long-ago:

Mark Janssen wrote:
> Ethan Furman wrote:
>> Mark Janssen wrote:
>>>
>>> Really?
>>>
>>> --> int="five"
>>> --> [int(i) for i in ["1","2","3"]]
>>>
>>> TypeError:  str is not callable
>>>
>>> Now how are you going to get the original int type back?
>>
>> Mark Janssen, you would increase your credibility if you actually *learned*
>> Python.
>
> Thank you, I actually knew it and was feigning ignorance for a good
> reason -- where is this magical "assignment stack" which remembers
> what int was originally bound to after I rebound it myself?

As you can see, if caught out he claims he was feigning ignorance, but then immediately shows the ignorance is real.

I take some solace in him not being a profane troll, as some in the past have been.

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~Ethan~