Python for beginners or not? [was Re: syntax difference]

[Paul Moore]

On 25 June 2018 at 11:53, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:

> And the specific line you reference is *especially* a joke, one which
> flies past nearly everyone's head:
>
> There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
>
>
> Notice the dashes? There are *two* traditional ways to use an pair of em-
> dashes for parenthetical asides:
>
> 1. With no space--like this--between the parenthetical aside and the text;
>
> 2. With a single space on either side -- like this -- between the aside
> and the rest of the text.
>
> Not satisfied with those two ways, Tim invented his own.
>
>
> https://bugs.python.org/issue3364
>
>
> (Good grief, its been nearly ten years since that bug report. I remember
> it like it was yesterday.)

Thank you for that bit of history! I never knew that (and indeed had
missed that part of the joke). Tim's contributions to Python are
always to be treasured :-)

Paul