On Sun, 4 Jun 2017 05:48 pm, Larry Hudson wrote: > On 06/03/2017 09:39 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: >> That's a tricky thing to pin down. Since it's possible for a sequence >> to contain itself, or to contain something which contains it, > > Like a Tardis? > > [Sorry, couldn't resist...] ;-)
Exactly right! I'm very fond of the model of Python objects that says they can be in multiple places at once, including inside themselves, much like the TARDIS. Unlike the TARDIS, however, they can't travel backwards in time. > OTOH, On-Topic... It might be worth while to point out that a 'character' is > NOT a data type in Python, in the same sense as it is in other languages. -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
