c...@zip.com.au writes: > They want to burn her because she's supposedly a witch, but the > scientific test was that she weighed as much as a duck. So I think > your second example is also duck typing: functioning like a duck.
Excellent reasoning! (Also, I agree that describing objects with “looks like a witch” brings repressive social context, both historical and present-day, that should not be encouraged. I'd prefer that the Python community refrain from that.) Let's stick to the term “duck typing”. -- \ “Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a | `\ feature.” —Rich Kulawiec | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
