On 25 June 2018 at 11:53, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> And the specific line you reference is *especially* a joke, one which > flies past nearly everyone's head: > > There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it. > > > Notice the dashes? There are *two* traditional ways to use an pair of em- > dashes for parenthetical asides: > > 1. With no space--like this--between the parenthetical aside and the text; > > 2. With a single space on either side -- like this -- between the aside > and the rest of the text. > > Not satisfied with those two ways, Tim invented his own. > > > https://bugs.python.org/issue3364 > > > (Good grief, its been nearly ten years since that bug report. I remember > it like it was yesterday.) Thank you for that bit of history! I never knew that (and indeed had missed that part of the joke). Tim's contributions to Python are always to be treasured :-) Paul -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
