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Re: %r
From: Fredrik Lundh <fredrik@pythonware.com>
Date: Sat Mar 11 2006 - 13:52:35 CET
Date: Sat Mar 11 2006 - 13:52:35 CET
Blackbird wrote:
> By "cargo cult programming", do you mean actually *running* the code?
no, I mean basing your mental model of something on distant observations
of superficial (or accidental) artifacts (like the perceived similarity between
the output from repr() and the raw string literal syntax), rather than on an
attempt to understand what's really going on, and what causes what.
or something like that.
</F>
Received on Sun Apr 30 11:33:46 2006