Oleg Broytmann wrote: > http://www.apollon.uio.no/vis/art/2006_4/Artikler/python_english > > (-: > > Oleg.
I noticed the other day that the word "Pythonic" means "Prophetic", according to Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition: Py*thon"ic (?), a. [L. pythonicus, Gr. . See Pythian.] Prophetic; oracular; pretending to foretell events. So, in the future, when someone says that a particular feature isn't "pythonic", what they are really saying is that the feature isn't a good indicator of things to come, which implies that such statements are self-fulfilling prophesies. Which means that statements about whether a particular language feature is pythonic are themselves pythonic. -- Talin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
