PEP 308: A PEP Writer's Experience - PRO

[Andrew Koenig]

Fredrik> even if the size of X is close to zero, for anyone who has
Fredrik> bothered to *learn* the language?

Fredrik> or are you saying that learning is irrelevant?

Well, no -- I'm saying partly that learning does not always overcome
the tendency to make mistakes that are waiting to be made.

For example, look at this code from Python 2.2.2 Lib/unittest.py:

        self.stream.writeln("Ran %d test%s in %.3fs" %
                            (run, run == 1 and "" or "s", timeTaken))

See the bug?

-- 
Andrew Koenig, ark at research.att.com, http://www.research.att.com/info/ark