On 19/04/17 21:25, Ethan Furman wrote: > Asking that you not denigrate non-Python ideas on the Python list is not > asking for "special respect", I have no idea what you just said! :D This is why I dislike code such as: if not no_results(data) != not_valid: pass ... and I've seen lots of that sort of thing (but mostly not in Python code, thankfully). E.