No! I was serious. I've spent *ages* trying to find the link to the article... if you know it, please share.
Ok - I thought you were referring to some troll's rant with similar title. I'm probably way off, but were you referring to the RAII technique?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Acquisition_Is_Initialization -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
