Part of Python’s appeal is its rich class library. The old XKCD about import antigravity sometimes doesn’t feel that far off. Combined with a few third-party libraries, like NumPy, you can do a lot with very little code.
Of course, that feels a bit like magic. As Python gurus like to say, “Explicit is better than implicit”. One of Mark’s co-workers took this perhaps a bit too far, when they started adding this import to every file:
from __builtin__ import True
As you might imagine from a name like __builtin__, everything in that namespace, including True, is imported by default. Mark found this “among other useless stuff”.
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