How to pop the interpreter's stack?

[kj]

In <mailman.301.1293383804.6505.python-list at python.org> Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> writes:

>You failed to mention that cleverness is not a prime requisite of the 
>python programmer -- in fact, it's usually frowned upon.

That's the party line, anyway.  I no longer believe it.  I've been
crashing against one bit of cleverness after another in Python's
unification of types and classes...