[Python-ideas] Possible method of distinguishing between set-literals, dict-literals, and odict-literals

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Jun 21 03:24:38 CEST 2009


Carl Johnson wrote:

> Actually, the votes have been counted at various times in the past.
> Until 2000, the secretary of state for Florida was contracted to count
> the votes, but following a Supreme Court ruling, that was
> discontinued, and new electronic system from Diebold was put in place.
> Then in 2004, there was a lot of grumbling that the Diebold machines
> were using Perl internally, so they outsourced the whole vote counting
> project to a team in Iran. Unfortunately, the team there hasn't been
> answering their emails lately… (And good luck to them, insha'allah!)

Latest news is that the Iranian people have demanded a
recount, but that turned out to be impossible because
the authorities kept the votes in a non-reiterable
container.

-- 
Greg





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