Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> do you often write programs that "sums" various kinds of data types, and
> for which performance issues are irrelevant?
>
> or are you just stuck in a "I have this idea" loop?
Maybe he's just insisting on the principle of least surprise?
Personally, I'd rather expect sum() t
Nick Coghlan wrote:
> > Is
> > this something to do with system modules being singletons?
>
> They aren't singletons in the GoF design pattern sense. However,
Python's import
> machinery operates in such a way that it takes effort to get multiple
version of
> the same module into memory at the sa
