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

[Grant Edwards]

On 2018-06-25, 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

Brilliant!

I don't know how I missed that.  I'm not sure which would be more
impressive: that Tim thought up the joke as described, or that it was
made up ex post facto.  Either one is brilliant.

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