On Jul 9, 12:40 pm, Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com> wrote: > The second[or higher]-order > ignorance of not knowing what pdb is (or, if you need more powerful > debugging, how to do it) is sign the person hasn't been programming > in Python much.
So guru knowledge of pdb is prerequisite to being accepted as a Pythonista? I find that ridiculous since *real* programmers don't use debuggers anyway. > [Ed: something appears to have gotten truncated there] Yeah, it's > more about a person being sufficiently steeped in python to know > bits and pieces of the zen, and their ability to recognize/create > pythonic code. I've seen enough Java-written-in-Python to know what > I don't want :-) I know you are a member of the group who has an aversion to strict OOP paradigm but is this a justified aversion, or just fear of OOP due to static evolution? Look, i don't like java's strict approach either, however, i do not have an aversion to OOP. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list