On 12/15/2010 8:10 AM, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: > On Tuesday 14 December 2010, 21:38:47 Arnaud Delobelle wrote: >> Christian Heimes <li...@cheimes.de> writes: >> [...] >> >>> Tres Seavers once told me a joke like this: >>> >>> True = not not "Who's at the door?" # say it out loud! >>> >>> This was back in the old days of Zope 2.5 and Python 2.1, which >>> didn't have True and False. >> >> I almost used: >> >> True = "to be" or not "to be" # that is the question > > That's wrong: > >>>> "to be" or not "to be" > 'to be' > > You need to wrap it with bool() at least (even without interpreting > Pythons answer to the duality contradiction of consciousness for > now ;-)) > >> but didn't dare! > Yeah, if Hamlet had been a Python programmer that play would have been a light comedy.
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