On Friday, September 30, 2016 at 10:23:31 AM UTC+5:30, Gregory Ewing wrote: > namenobodywants wrote: > > can anyone help to reconcile me to this semantics? > > Not really. Most people agree that it's not desirable > behaviour, but we've ended up here due to a convoluted > history, and there doesn't seem to be a good way to > fix it without breaking a lot of existing code.
Thanks for an unusually helpful answer. In my experience telling a beginner: «This» is a misfeature/gotcha And «this» is its workaround greatly shortens the learning curve as compared to long-winded justificatory explanations -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
