r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes: > Why do we newbies write »print 2«? Here's another hint. > This is an original transcript of what happened to me today: […]
> What happened? I woke up today in parens mood. So I typed: > > import( operator ) So, are you making the case that people write the wrong syntax because they wake up in the wrong mood? Python doesn't much care about our mood :-) The syntax is what it is, and the programmer has to deal with the syntax as it is. > Python told me that I should type: > > import operator > > . Fine, Python conditioned me to omit the parens. Hopefully Python is conditioning you that a function call requires parens; the above statement does not have a function call. What is being communicated to us with this example, do you think? -- \ “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” —_The Anatomy of | `\ Frustration_, H. G. Wells, 1936 | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
