OT: (ambi)dexterity of Pythonistas

[David Eppstein]

In article <mailman.1012934533.15278.python-list at python.org>,
 "Dr. David Mertz" <mertz at gnosis.cx> wrote:

> |"Martijn Faassen" <m.faassen at vet.uu.nl> wrote ...
> |> I suppose it might be a brain thing. I use my left hand for writing and
> |> drawing while I use my right hand for more coarse-grained tasks, like
> |> throwing a ball and such.
> 
> "Steve Holden" <sholden at holdenweb.com> wrote
> |Strange. I don't come across many other people who do this. I've always
> |thought my brain must have been differently wired for some reason I'll never
> |know.
> 
> Same story for me.  I don't think it is that unusual though.  Culture is
> sort of geared to the right-handed majority, so us folks who are mostly
> left-handed wind up learning the things they can do "well enough" with
> the right hand in the common style.

In my case it's not a matter of coping with the off-hand, and the 
subdivision of tasks seems to be more random, not based on coarse or fine 
grain.  I write and throw with my right hand (my left hand writing is not 
bad and probably would improve with practice) but shave primarily with my 
left hand, can spin frisbees only on my left hand, can use chopsticks or 
eat spaghetti with either hand, and can catch equally well with either 
hand.  But about the only hand skill relevant to Python is typing, which I 
(and probably most of us) do both-handed...
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David Eppstein       UC Irvine Dept. of Information & Computer Science
eppstein at ics.uci.edu http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/