Fwd: [BUG] missing ')' causes syntax error on next line

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Thu Jul 23 14:07:24 EDT 2020


On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 4:00 AM Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 09:51:42 +1000, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com>
> declaimed the following:
>
> >On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 9:17 AM dn via Python-list
> ><python-list at python.org> wrote:
> >> However, questions remain:-
> >>
> >> Robot: any machine or mechanical device that operates automatically with
> >> humanlike skill
> >>
> >
> >What about a human that operates mechanically with merely robot-like
> >skill? I'm pretty sure I've spoken to them on the phone many times.
>
>         Would that be... a computer?
>
>
>
> Using the original meaning of "one who computes"
>

I suspect that even that is too generous for some of them. They merely
follow instructions like good little automatons, until the caller
gives up...

ChrisA


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