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From: David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
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Subject: Re: Python (was Re: I did not inhale)
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2024 10:46:55 +0200
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On 03/09/2024 02:09, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Aug 2024 17:06:05 +0200, David Brown wrote:
> 
>> On 31/08/2024 01:49, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>>> Interesting. Now you are trying to claim that, because you don’t
>>> understand what the code does, that makes it somehow “meaningless”?
>>
>> I covered that in an earlier post.
> 
> Maybe in your mind you thought you did. Nowhere in your comments on this
> code did you say so, that I can find.

To be accurate, the code in question was not actually /meaningless/ - it 
was merely pointlessly complex, inefficient and unclear.

You wrote:

     def register_additional_standard(self, **kwargs) :
         for key in kwargs :
             if kwargs[key] :
                 if key == "managed_objects" :
		    # ....
                 else :
                     raise TypeError("unrecognized argument keyword 
“%s”" % key)


I changed it in a re-write to:

     def register_additional_standard(self, managed_objects) :
         if managed_objects :
             # ....


That change, I think, was lost in the discussions about bizarre 
formatting practices.