Brilliant or insane code?

[Mark Lawrence]

I've just come across this 
http://www.stavros.io/posts/brilliant-or-insane-code/ as a result of 
this http://bugs.python.org/issue23695

Any and all opinions welcomed, I'm chickening out and sitting firmly on 
the fence.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence