[Python-Dev] [OT] carping about irritating people (was: bytes / unicode) (original) (raw)

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Mon Jun 21 20:20:43 CEST 2010


Ben Finney writes:

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:

your base URL is gonna be b'mailto:stephen at xemacs.org', but the natural thing the UI will want to do is

formurl = baseurl + '?subject=うるさいやつだなぁ…'

Incidentally, which irritating person was the topic of this Japanese-language message to you?

(Kudos to Nick.) "Urusai" is also used to refer to the finicky. So, the RFC-toting pedant. Ie, me.

(The subject in Stephen's example message translates roughly as "(unspecified third person)

Not quite. The subject of the copula, if omitted, is entirely context-dependent.



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