Python 2.0b1 is released!

[Kent Polk]

On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 05:54:48 -0400, Tim Peters wrote:
>[Tim]
>> I may not be a lawyer, but I've met enough judges to know they
>> don't take kindly to presumptions the law is for sale.
>
>[Kent Polk]
>> That is simply because they don't appreciate it being pointed out
>> that they are at most only once removed from that statement.
>> ...
>
>Matters not a bit:  if they don't take kindly to the basis of your argument,
>you lose.  In my day, the Chicago 7 proved that beyond all doubt <wink>.

Exactly. Which is why you don't bring up the matter inside a
courtroom.  As a judge told me (many, many years ago), "Truth,
Justice or Ethics have no meaning inside a Courtroom. There is only
Law, which can be anything I choose".