Re:In Memoriam: Tim Peters 1952–2026
by shiandow on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @02:11PM
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The PEP explicitly says there are 20 of which only 19 are written down and I can't figure out if that is a joke, a deliberate statement, or both.
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And at that moment, shiandow was enlightened. ;)
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_of_Python has more about the discrepancy.)
Two of the most common bugs in programming is the off-by-one error.
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Re:In Memoriam: Tim Peters 1952–2026
by willtemperley on Thursday November 12, 2026 @08:34AM
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I'm guessing you're not Dutch?
Re:In Memoriam: Tim Peters 1952–2026
by jacobolus on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:20AM
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From the original mailing list message:
> There you go: 20 Pythonic Fec^H^H^HTheses on the nose, counting the one I'm
> leaving for Guido to fill in. If the answer to *any* Python design issue
> isn't obvious after reading those -- well, I just give up <wink>.
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/1999-June/0019...