very weird pandas behavior

[Steven D'Aprano]

Rick Johnson wrote:

> On Tuesday, December 23, 2014 3:35:20 AM UTC-6, wxjm... at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Wait for ther 3.5 release. I will still show
>> you how to make Idle, tkinter, Python crashing
>> in 10 seconds.
>> 
>> Discussing with (some) core devs is simply impossible,
>> they do not whish to discuss!
>> 
>> All this can be explained with a sheet of paper,
>> a pencil and some basic mathematical knowledge.
>> 
>> jmf
> 
> Hello "Jmf". I'm confused by your interjection. Are you the OP? Or are you
> speaking on behalf of the OP? Or did you forget to switch accounts -- gawd
> that can be so embarrassing! (Urm, not that i have any experience in the
> area).


JMF is our resident Unicode crackpot, he is obsessed with the idea that a
minor performance regression on some artificial and simplistic string
operations which nobody would ever actually use in real life is categorical
proof that Python's Unicode implementation is fundamentally and
mathematically broken.

I don't think he is trolling, I think he really is obsessed with this idea,
like the circle-squarers, pi-is-a-rational-number cranks, "Queen Elizabeth
and the Pope are space-aliens" nutters, Einstein-was-wrong maniacs and all
the rest.



-- 
Steven