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

Sat Jul 17 06:39:05 EDT 2010

On 07/17/2010 10:03 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On 2010年7月16日 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.
>
You try and tell the young people of today that, and they won't believe
you.