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  for example:
  "Quote", "Attribution Name", "Attribution Source", "Category", "Rating"
  "I hope this has taught you kids a lesson: kids never learn.","Chief Wiggum","The Simpsons","Humor",9
  "Sideshow Bob has no decency. He called me Chief Piggum. (laughs) Oh wait, I get it, he's all right.","Chief Wiggum","The Simpsons","Humor",8
 
=item 1 if these dont suit your needs, ACME::QuoteDB::LoadDB is sub-classable, 
 
  so one can extract data anyway they like and populate the db themselves. 
  (there is a test that illustrates overriding the stub method, 'dbload')
 
   you need to populate a record data structure:
 
    $self->set_record(quote  => q{}); # mandatory
    $self->set_record(name   => q{}); # mandatory
    $self->set_record(source => q{}); # optional but useful
    $self->set_record(catg   => q{}); # optional but useful
    $self->set_record(rating => q{}); # optional but useful
 
   # then to write the record you call

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1172 =head2 Quote
 
=head2 Catg
 
=head2 QuoteCatg
 
=end comment
 
=head1 DIAGNOSTICS
 
An error such as:
 
C<DBD::SQLite::db prepare_cached failed: no such table: ,...>
 
probably means that you do not have a database created in the correct format.
 
basically, you need to create the database, usually, on a first run
 
you need to add the flag (to the loader):
 
create_db => 1, # first run, create the db

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=head1 AUTHOR
 
David Wright, C<< <david_v_wright at yahoo.com> >>
 
=head1 TODO
 
=over 2
 
=item 1 if the database cannot be found, no error is printed!!!
 
or if you have no write access to it!
"you'll just get 'no attribute can be found,,...", which is cryptic to say
the least!
 
=item 1 add a dump backup to csv
 
a backup mechanism for your db to a regular text csv file.
 
=item 1 clean up tests 'skip if module X' not installed

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  }
  close $source or carp $!;
 
  return $self;
}
 
# sub class this - i.e. provide this method in your code (see test
# 01-load_quotes.t)
sub dbload {
  croak 'Override this. Provide this method in a sub class (child) of this object';
  # see tests: t/01-load_quotes.t for examples
}
 
sub _to_utf8 {
    my ($self) = @_;
 
    RECORD:
    foreach my $r (@QUOTE_FIELDS){
        my $val = $self->{record}->{$r};
        if (ref $val eq 'ARRAY'){

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#sub create_db_mysql {
#    my ($self) = @_;
#
#     # hmmmm, what about priv's access, etc
#     # maybe user need to supply a db, they have 
#     # access to, already created (just the db though)
#     ## create our db
#     #my $dbhc = DBI->connect('DBI:mysql:database=mysql;host='
#     #                           .$self->{host}, $self->{user}, $self->{pass})
#     #      || croak "db cannot be accessed $! $DBI::errstr";
#
#     #my $dbn = $self->{db};
#     #my $db = qq(CREATE DATABASE $dbn CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci);
#     # eval {
#     #     $dbhc->do($db) or croak $dbhc->errstr;
#     # };
#     # $@ and croak 'Cannot create database!';
#     # $dbhc->disconnect; $dbhc = undef;
#
#     my $drh = DBI->install_driver('mysql');
#     my $rc = $drh->func("dropdb", $self->{db}, 
#                    [$self->{host}, $self->{user}, $self->{password}],
#                    'admin'
#                );
#

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# XXX refactor with sqlite
sub create_db_tables_mysql {
    my ($self) = @_;
 
     # connect to our db
     my $c = $self->{db}.';host='.$self->{host};
     my $dbh = DBI->connect(
             "DBI:mysql:database=$c", $self->{user}, $self->{pass})
               || croak "db cannot be accessed $! $DBI::errstr";
 
    eval {
        $dbh->do('DROP TABLE IF EXISTS quote;') or croak $dbh->errstr;
 
        $dbh->do('CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS quote (
            quot_id        INTEGER NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, 
            attr_id        INTEGER,
            quote          TEXT,
            source         TEXT,
            rating         REAL,
            PRIMARY KEY(quot_id)
            );')
            #)CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
            #) ENGINE = MYISAM CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci; 
            or croak $dbh->errstr;
 
        $dbh->do('DROP TABLE IF EXISTS attribution;') or croak $dbh->errstr;
 
        $dbh->do('CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS attribution (
            attr_id  INTEGER NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
            name     TEXT,
            PRIMARY KEY(attr_id)
            );') or croak $dbh->errstr;
 
        $dbh->do('DROP TABLE IF EXISTS category;') or croak $dbh->errstr;
 
        $dbh->do('CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS category (
            catg_id    INTEGER NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, 
            catg       TEXT,
            PRIMARY KEY(catg_id)
            );') or croak $dbh->errstr;
 
        $dbh->do('DROP TABLE IF EXISTS quote_catg;') or croak $dbh->errstr;
 
        $dbh->do('CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS quote_catg (
            id    INTEGER NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, 
            catg_id    INTEGER, 
            quot_id    INTEGER, 
            PRIMARY KEY(id)
            );') or croak $dbh->errstr;
 
 
       $dbh->disconnect or warn $dbh->errstr;
 
       $dbh = undef;
    };
 
    return $@ and croak 'Cannot create database tables!';
 
}
 
sub create_db_tables_sqlite {
 
     my $db = QDBI->get_current_db_path;
 
     #XXX is there really no way to do this with the existing 
     # connection?!(class dbi)
     my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:SQLite:dbname='.$db, '', '')
       || croak "$db cannot be accessed $! $DBI::errstr";
 
    #-- sqlite does not have a varchar datatype: VARCHAR(255)
    #-- A column declared INTEGER PRIMARY KEY will autoincrement.
    eval {
        $dbh->do('DROP TABLE IF EXISTS quote;') or croak $dbh->errstr;
 
        $dbh->do('CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS quote (
            quot_id        INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, 
            attr_id        INTEGER,
            quote          TEXT,
            source         TEXT,
            rating         REAL
            );')
            or croak $dbh->errstr;
 
        $dbh->do('DROP TABLE IF EXISTS attribution;') or croak $dbh->errstr;
 
        $dbh->do('CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS attribution (
            attr_id  INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
            name     TEXT
            );') or croak $dbh->errstr;
 
        $dbh->do('DROP TABLE IF EXISTS category;') or croak $dbh->errstr;
 
        $dbh->do('CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS category (
            catg_id    INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, 
            catg       TEXT
            );') or croak $dbh->errstr;
 
        $dbh->do('DROP TABLE IF EXISTS quote_catg;') or croak $dbh->errstr;
 
        $dbh->do('CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS quote_catg (
            id         INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
            catg_id    INTEGER,
            quot_id    INTEGER
            );') or croak $dbh->errstr;
 
        $dbh->disconnect or carp $dbh->errstr;
 
        $dbh = undef;
    };
 
    return $@ and croak 'Cannot create database tables!';
 
}
 
q(My cat's breath smells like cat food. --Ralph Wiggum);

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* csv file (pre determined format)
 
     pros: quick and easy to load.
     cons: getting the quotes data into the correct format need by this module
 
=item 2
 
* any source.
 
    One can take quote data from any source, override
    L<ACME::QuoteDB::LoadDB/dbload> loader methods to populate a record
    and write it to the db.
     pros: can get any quote data into the db.
     cons: you supply the method. depending on the complexity of the data
           source and munging required this will take longer then the other 
           methods.
 
=back
 
=head3 load from csv file

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   $load_db->data_to_db;
 
   if (!$load_db->success){print 'failed'}
 
 
=head3 load from any source
 
If those dont catch your interest, ACME::QuoteDB::LoadDB is sub-classable, 
so one can extract data anyway they like and populate the db themselves. 
(there is a test that illustrates overriding the stub method, 'dbload')
 
you need to populate a record data structure:
 
    $self->set_record(quote  => q{}); # mandatory
    $self->set_record(name   => q{}); # mandatory
    $self->set_record(source => q{}); # optional but useful
    $self->set_record(catg   => q{}); # optional but useful
    $self->set_record(rating => q{}); # optional but useful
 
    # then to write the record you call

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=head2 dbload
 
if your file format is set to 'html' or 'custom' you must 
define this method to do your parsing in a sub class.
 
Load from html is not supported because there are too many 
ways to represt the data. (same with 'custom')
(see tests for examples - there is a test for loading a 'fortune' file format)
 
One can subclass ACME::QuoteDB::LoadDB and override dbload,
to do our html parsing
 
=head2 debug_record
 
dump record (show what is set on the internal data structure) 
 
e.g. Data::Dumper
 
=head2 set_record

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=head2 write_record
 
takes the data structure 'record' '$self->get_record'
(which must exist). checks if attribution name ($self->get_record('name')) exists, 
if so, uses existing attribution name, otherwsie creates a new one
 
Load from html is not supported because there are too many 
ways to represt the data. (see tests for examples)
 
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to do our html parsing
 
=head2 create_db_tables
  
create an empty quotes database (with correct tables). 
 
(usually only performed the first time you load data)
 
B<NOTE: will overwrite ALL existing data>

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=head2 create_db_tables_sqlite
 
=head2 create_db_tables_mysql
 
=end comment
 
=head1 DIAGNOSTICS
 
An error such as:
 
C<DBD::SQLite::db prepare_cached failed: no such table: ,...>
 
probably means that you do not have a database created in the correct format.
 
basically, you need to create the database, usually, on a first run
 
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           'Ralph Wiggum',
          );
   
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}
 
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  # this is an example of extracting quotes from html:
  # subclass ACME::QuoteDB::LoadDB and override dbload,
  # to do our html parsing
  package LoadQuoteDBFromHtml;
  use base 'https://metacpan.org/pod/ACME::QuoteDB::LoadDB">ACME::QuoteDB::LoadDB';
  use Carp qw/croak/;
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      my ($self, $file) = @_;

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'Gareth McCaughan',
'Gordon McMillan',
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'GvR',
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{ # prove load a fortune format file
  # this is an example of importing a file in the 'fortune' format
  # subclass ACME::QuoteDB::LoadDB and override dbload, to do our parsing
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  sub dbload {
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One of the things that makes it interesting, is exactly how much Guido has
managed to exploit that *one* implementation trick of 'namespaces'.
      -- Steven D. Majewski, 17 Sep 1993
 
Anyone familiar with Modula-3 should appreciate the difference between a
layered approach, with generic Rd/Wr types, and the Python 'C with foam
padding' approach.
      -- John Redford, 24 Nov 1993
 
People simply will not agree on what should and shouldn't be "an error", and
once exception-handling mechanisms are introduced to give people a choice, they
will far less agree on what to do with them.
      -- Tim Peters, 17 Dec 1993
 
Note that because of its semantics, 'del' *can't* be a function: "del a"
deletes 'a' from the current namespace. A function can't delete something from
the calling namespace (except when written by Steve Majewski :-).
      -- Guido van Rossum, 1 Aug 1994
 
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beginners" page. Replace all print-statements with sys.stdout.write(
string.join(map(str, args)) + "\n") and you surely won't get any new beginners.
And That Would Be A Very Bad Thing.
      -- Fredrik Lundh, 27 Aug 1996
 
Ya, ya, ya, except ... if I were built out of KSR chips, I'd be running at 25
or 50 MHz, and would be wrong about ALMOST EVERYTHING almost ALL THE TIME just
due to being a computer! Think about it -- when's the last time you spent 20
hours straight debugging your son/wife/friend/neighbor/dog/ferret/snake? And
they *still* fell over anyway? Except in a direction you've never seen before
each time you try it? The easiest way to tell you're dealing with a computer is
when the other side keeps making the same moronic misteakes over and misteakes
over and misteakes over and misteakes over and misteakes over and misteakes
CTRL-C again.
      -- Tim Peters, 30 Apr 1997
 
BTW, a member of the ANSI C committee once told me that the only thing rand is
used for in C code is to decide whether to pick up the axe or throw the dwarf,
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      -- Gordon McMillan, 8 Jun 1998
 
The majority of programmers aren't really looking for flexibility. Most
languages that enjoy huge success seem to do so not because they're flexible,
but because they do one particular thing *extremely* well. Like Fortran for
fast number-crunching in its day, or Perl for regexps, or C++ for compatibility
with C, or C for ... well, C's the exception that proves the rule.
      -- Tim Peters, 11 Jun 1998
 
It has also been referred to as the "Don Beaudry *hack*," but that's a
misnomer. There's nothing hackish about it -- in fact, it is rather elegant and
deep, even though there's something dark to it.
      -- Guido van Rossum, _Metaclass Programming in Python 1.5_
 
Just point your web browser at http://www.python.org/search/ and look for
"program", "doesn't", "work", or "my". Whenever you find someone else whose
program didn't work, don't do what they did. Repeat as needed.
      -- Tim Peters, on python-help, 16 Jun 1998
 
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      -- Tim Peters, 6 Aug 1998
 
I wonder what Guido thinks he might do in Python2 (assuming, of course, that he
doesn't hire a bus to run over him before then <wink>).
      -- Tim Peters, 26 Aug 1998
 
After writing CGI scripts the traditional way for a few years, it is taking
awhile to reshape my thinking. No sledgehammer to the head yet, but lots of
small sculpting hammers...
      -- John Eikenberry on the Bobo list, 27 Aug 1998
 
I believe sometimes numbers creep into my programs as strings, so '4'/2 needs
to also be 2. Other languages do this. Since this is due in part to user input,
I guess 'four'/2, 'quattro/2', 'iv/2' etc. need to be 2 as well; don't know any
other language that does so, but Python could take the lead here in software
reliability. Any white space should be ignored, including between my ears. I
don't have time to write any useful software, so I've decided to devote myself
to proposing various changes to the Python interpreter.
      -- Donn Cave uses sarcasm with devastating effect, 28 Aug 1998

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    "Can we kill this thread? The only thing it does as far as I'm concerned is
increase the posting statistics. :-)"
    "don't-open-cans-of-worms-unless-you're-looking-for-a-new-diet-ly y'rs"
      -- Guido van Rossum and Tim Peters, 6 Jan 1999
 
    Hey, that was the first truly portable laptop! Of course I'm nostalgic.
Came with a mighty 24Kb RAM standard, & I popped the extra $80 to max it out at
32Kb. Much of Cray's register assigner was developed on that beast: unlike the
prototype Crays of the time, the M100 was always available and never crashed.
Even better, I could interrupt it any time, poke around, and resume right where
it left off <wink>.
    m100-basic-reminded-me-a-lot-of-python-except-that-it-sucked-ly y'rs
      -- Tim Peters remembering the Model 100, 10 Jan 1999
 
    "Heh -- all it really broke so far was my resistance to installing Tk. I
suppose wizardry is inevitable after one installs something, though <wink>."
    "Spoken like a truly obsessive-compulsive wizard! It-takes-one-to-know
-one..."
      -- Tim Peters and Guido van Rossum, 6 Jan 1999

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pieces, then code in whatever language most suits the need of each piece.
      -- Gordon McMillan, 15 Dec 1999
 
When Jim [Fulton] says "tricky" it means your brain could explode.
      -- Michel Pelletier, 15 Dec 1999
 
You have start-tags, attributes, end-tags and character data. We have all seen
"XML applications" and "XML parsers" which handle this gang- of-four concepts.
... Now we can peer over the parapet and shout "your parser smells of
elderberries" or "I wave my mixed content at your ankles", as long as we like
but the simple gang-of-four base apps will not go away.
      -- Sean McGrath, 19 Dec 1999
 
Abstraction is one of those notions that Python tosses out the window, yet
expresses very well.
      -- Gordon McMillan, 6 Jan 2000
 
The set of naming conventions has a cardinality equal to the number of Python
users.
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      -- Aahz Maruch, 6 Jan 2000
 
It's not the mail volume that bothers me -- I can ignore 100s of messages a day
very quickly. It's the time it takes to respond to all of them.
      -- Guido van Rossum, 20 Jan 2000
 
This is the way of Haskell or Design by Contract of Eiffel. This one is like
wearing a XV century armor, you walk very safely but in a very tiring way.
      -- Manuel Gutierrez Algaba, 26 Jan 2000
 
Life's better without braces.
      -- Unofficial motto of IPC8, coined by Bruce Eckel
 
"Aggressive" means "sometimes wrong".
      -- John Aycock at IPC8, during his "Agressive Type Inferencing" talk
 
Do I do everything in C++ and teach a course in advanced swearing?
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better before Python got a large American audience <0.9 wink>.
      -- Tim Peters, 10 Feb 2000
 
I have formal proofs that any change of the indentation rules results in 35%
increase of the page faults for only 63.7% of the cache misses. The net effect
is an overall slowdown of 10%.
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... let me just say that my least-favourite Python error message is
"SyntaxError: invalid syntax", which somehow manages to be both overly terse
and redundant at the same time.
      -- Greg Ward, 15 Feb 2000
 
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public, except at parades when they all have antler- hats and silly shoes on.
So they completely missed the infamous "goto considered harmful" thread and
didn't even realize they were doing anything wrong.
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programs appeals to you, Eiffel will give you more help than any other
practical language I know of. But since your post didn't lay out your
assumptions, your goals, or how you view language characteristics as fitting in
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portion. The dynamic people say they add enormous complexity, and they catch a
small portion, and point out that the static people have bad breath. The static
people assert that the dynamic people must be too stupid to cope with a real
language and rigorous requirements, and are ugly besides.
    This is when both sides start throwing rocks.
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<p class='quotation' id='q17'>One of the things that makes it
interesting, is exactly how much Guido has managed to exploit that
<em>one</em> implementation trick of 'namespaces'.</p>
<p class='source'>Steven D. Majewski, 17 Sep 1993</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q18'>Anyone familiar with Modula-3 should
appreciate the difference between a layered approach, with generic
Rd/Wr types, and the Python 'C with foam padding' approach.</p>
<p class='source'>John Redford, 24 Nov 1993</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q19'>People simply will not agree on what
should and shouldn't be "an error", and once exception-handling
mechanisms are introduced to give people a choice, they will far
less agree on what to do with them.</p>
<p class='source'>Tim Peters, 17 Dec 1993</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q20'>Note that because of its semantics,
'del' <em>can't</em> be a function: "del a" deletes 'a' from the
current namespace. A function can't delete something from the
calling namespace (except when written by Steve Majewski :-).</p>
<p class='source'>Guido van Rossum, 1 Aug 1994</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q21'>I don't know a lot about this
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print-statements with <code>sys.stdout.write( string.join(map(str,
args)) + "\n")</code> and you surely won't get any new beginners.
And That Would Be A Very Bad Thing.</p>
<p class='source'>Fredrik Lundh, 27 Aug 1996</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q43'>Ya, ya, ya, except ... if I were
built out of KSR chips, I'd be running at 25 or 50 MHz, and would
be wrong about ALMOST EVERYTHING almost ALL THE TIME just due to
being a computer! Think about it -- when's the last time you spent
20 hours straight debugging your
son/wife/friend/neighbor/dog/ferret/snake? And they <em>still</em>
fell over anyway? Except in a direction you've never seen before
each time you try it? The easiest way to tell you're dealing with a
computer is when the other side keeps making the same moronic
misteakes over and misteakes over and misteakes over and misteakes
over and misteakes over and misteakes CTRL-C again.</p>
<p class='source'>Tim Peters, 30 Apr 1997</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q44'>BTW, a member of the ANSI C committee
once told me that the only thing rand is used for in C code is to
decide whether to pick up the axe or throw the dwarf, and if that's
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<p class='source'>Gordon McMillan, 8 Jun 1998</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q71'>The majority of programmers aren't
really looking for flexibility. Most languages that enjoy huge
success seem to do so not because they're flexible, but because
they do one particular thing <em>extremely</em> well. Like Fortran
for fast number-crunching in its day, or Perl for regexps, or C++
for compatibility with C, or C for ... well, C's the exception that
proves the rule.</p>
<p class='source'>Tim Peters, 11 Jun 1998</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q72'>It has also been referred to as the
"Don Beaudry <em>hack</em>," but that's a misnomer. There's nothing
hackish about it -- in fact, it is rather elegant and deep, even
though there's something dark to it.</p>
<p class='source'>Guido van Rossum, <cite>Metaclass Programming in
Python 1.5</cite></p>
<p class='quotation' id='q73'>Just point your web browser at
http://www.python.org/search/ and look for "program", "doesn't",
"work", or "my". Whenever you find someone else whose program
didn't work, don't do what they did. Repeat as needed.</p>
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<p class='source'>Tim Peters, 6 Aug 1998</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q86'>I wonder what Guido thinks he might
do in Python2 (assuming, of course, that he doesn't hire a bus to
run over him before then &lt;wink&gt;).</p>
<p class='source'>Tim Peters, 26 Aug 1998</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q87'>After writing CGI scripts the
traditional way for a few years, it is taking awhile to reshape my
thinking. No sledgehammer to the head yet, but lots of small
sculpting hammers...</p>
<p class='source'>John Eikenberry on the Bobo list, 27 Aug 1998</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q88'>I believe sometimes numbers creep
into my programs as strings, so '4'/2 needs to also be 2. Other
languages do this. Since this is due in part to user input, I guess
'four'/2, 'quattro/2', 'iv/2' etc. need to be 2 as well; don't know
any other language that does so, but Python could take the lead
here in software reliability. Any white space should be ignored,
including between my ears. I don't have time to write any useful
software, so I've decided to devote myself to proposing various
changes to the Python interpreter.</p>
<p class='source'>Donn Cave uses sarcasm with devastating effect,

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