Is '[' a function or an operator or an language feature?

[Gary Herron]

On 07/17/2010 01:03 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:23:09 -0500, Tim Chase wrote:
>
>    
>>> Is anyone /still/ using Python 2.x? ;-)
>>>        
>> 2.x?!  You were lucky. We lived for three months with Python 1.x in a
>> septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, write our
>> 1.x code using ed,
>>      
> You got to use ed? Oh, we *dreamed* of using an editor! We had to edit
> the sectors on disk directly with a magnetised needle. A rusty, blunt
> needle.
>    

Along those lines, there's this -- one of my favorite comics:

     http://xkcd.com/378/

and unrelated to the thread but still about python:

     http://xkcd.com/353/

Gary Herron