OT: AttributeError

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 9:10 AM <2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE at potatochowder.com> wrote:
>
> On 2021-09-29 at 11:38:22 +1300,
> dn via Python-list <python-list at python.org> wrote:
>
> > For those of us who remember/can compute in binary, octal, hex, or
> > decimal as-needed:
> > Why do programmers confuse All Hallows'/Halloween for Christmas Day?
>
> That one is also very old.  (Yes, I know the answer.  No, I will not
> spoil it for those who might not.)  What do I have to do to gain the
> insight necessary to have discovered that question and answer on my own?

You'd have to be highly familiar with numbers in different notations,
to the extent that you automatically read 65 and 0x41 as the same
number. Or, even better, to be able to read off a hex dump and see E8
03 and instantly read it as "1,000 little-endian".

ChrisA