[Python-Dev] Two small PEP ideas

[Tres Seaver]

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Jesse Noller wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:
>>> 2010/4/30 Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com>:
>>>> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:
>>>>> 2010/4/30 Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>:
>>>>>> Jesse Noller <jnoller <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>>> Consider this a plaintitive -1 to any sort of rule-or-decision based
>>>>>>> on committee.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'd much rather a 2x4 to the forehead.
>>>>>> Oops, sorry but what does "a 2x4 to the forehead" mean?
>>>>>> (and "plaintitive" by the way?)
>>>>> The former means being hit by a board and by the latter, he probably
>>>>> means "plaintive" meaning melancholy.
>>>>>
>>>> Does it only work for english speaking non-metric system users? (2x4
>>>> is probably something imperial)
>>> Yes, that's a 5,04 by 10,08 for you. :)
>> Of course "2 by 4" is just the name. The actual measurements of such a
>> piece of lumber in the store are about 1.75 by 3.75 inch. :-)
>>
> 
> We americans round up! (all the time)

Lumber is, oddly, named for its "wet size" (when cut), rather than "dry
size" (when you buy it at the lumber yard after it dries).


Tres.
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