John Machin wrote: > Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote: >> John Machin wrote: >> Are you kidding? If you know what "set" and "default" means, you will > be >> able to guess what "setdefault" means. Same goes for updateBy. >> > > No I'm not kidding -- people from some cultures have no difficulty at > all in mentally splitting up "words" like "setdefault" or the German > equivalent of "Danubesteamnavigationcompany'sdirector'swife"; others > from other cultures where agglutinisation is not quite so rife will > have extreme difficulty.
Okay - as I'm German I might be preoccupied on this matter <wink> Reinhold -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
