Python vs. Perl

[Isaac To Kar Keung]

>>>>> "Alex" == Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com> writes:

    Alex> Ah, the keys in a dictionary (hash) display are taken as literal
    Alex> and the values aren't?  How quaint.

Actually, Perl is more ugly than that.  Everything can be a literal, unless
something else is defined on that.  Of course, except that you can say
'import var' to have them trigger a warning or error.

Regards,
Isaac.