On 20 May 2011 07:04:27 GMT, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: : On Fri, 20 May 2011 05:48:50 +0100, Hans Georg Schaathun wrote: : : > Either way, the assumption that your system will not be handled by : > idiots is only reasonable if you yourself is the only user. : : Nonsense. How do you (generic "you", not any specific person) know that : you are not an idiot?
You don't, but if you are, you cannot trust any of the other assumptions either, and making this assumption is reasonable by being less of a leap than anything else you have done. -- :-- Hans Georg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
