Horrible abuse of __init_subclass__, or elegant hack?

[Avi Gross]

Chris,

Now that it is April 2, I have to ask which of the methods for dealing with
chocolate is more pythonic and is there a module for that?

Next April, can we switch beans and discuss different grades of coffee and
which ones are best to shave at home with a potato peeler? 

I think that would be equally relevant. 

I will agree that some kinds of pie-thon have chocolate as a middle
ingredient but what good is any kind of pie without coffee?

Oops, I should have sent this yesterday!

Avi

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Subject: Re: Horrible abuse of __init_subclass__, or elegant hack?

On Fri, Apr 2, 2021 at 10:43 AM dn via Python-list <python-list at python.org>
wrote:
>
> On 02/04/2021 10.13, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > Well, it's a simple matter of chronology. First you have crude oil, 
> > then time passes, and then you have plastic and residue. It makes 
> > sense ONLY if you think of it with a specific ordering, which 
> > implies Python 3.7 or later.
>
> My anxiety over 'ordering' comes to the fore: if there are multiple 
> inputs and/or multiple outputs, how can one tell where the former 
> series ends and the latter begins?
>
> "Explicit" cf "implicit"?

The exact same way. Before time passes, you have all of the inputs; after
time passes, you have all of the outputs. (The way the game goes, all inputs
are consumed simultaneously and all outputs produced simultaneously, so
there's no chronological distinctions between
them.)

> > Hot chocolate? Ahh, now, that's the other thing I drink a lot of. I 
> > even have a dedicated mug with a Cadbury logo on it. Sadly, not 
> > easily purchasable, but this one was a gift from a family member who 
> > knows full well that I have my priorities straight.
>
> Cadbury do not make chocolate!
> Neither do Hershey, for that matter!
> There, now that I've upset most of the English-speaking world...
>
> PS they use the milk to 'water down' the chocolate! It's much like 
> buying Easter Eggs: the density of chocolate is much lower for the price.

Chocolate comes in tiers.

1: Top tier chocolates - fine chocolates - are made by true artisans, and
are generally purchased in smaller quantities due to pricing.
(Although I did once buy something like 50kg of Lindor balls. That was a
gooood day.)

2: Everyday chocolate. Mass-produced, so it's lower quality but far lower in
price. Sure, it's not as amazing as eating Guylian or Godiva, but you can
eat a block of Cadbury every day and still be within budget.

3: Cooking chocolate. Comes cheaper than typical block chocolate, is usually
firmer, and takes more effort to make good use of, but you can take a potato
peeler to it and put chocolate shavings on your Pavlova, which doesn't
really work as well with a block of Dairy Milk.

4: Cheap chocolate. Easter eggs, bulk stuff, the sorts of things you throw
at children to keep them happy. Sometimes has nostalgia value, but it's
low-grade stuff. Some of it isn't too bad, but you end up paying MORE for it
than you would for tier two chocolate, since it's usually packaged up far
too much. Also, some of it is downright disgusting. I won't name names, but
one time I had access to a bulk load of white chocolate (and yes, you could
say that white chocolate isn't chocolate to start with, but some of it is
actually good), and it tasted like milk powder. Why people pay so much for
low-grade chocolate wrapped up in fiddly foil covers, I don't know.

> View
> https://www.whittakers.co.nz/en_NZ/products/72-dark-ghana/block-250g
> before questioning my curmugeonly credentials!

Oh yes, that's definitely one of the good brands. By "credentials", do you
mean that you have some connection with the company? If not, that's fine,
but it would certainly be notable if you do!

ChrisA
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