Chaitat

“He did not possess literary talents himself but in terms of his reading alone, he was an intellectual, despite being the son of a cobbler and a washerwoman.”
― Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

“Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape. —Michael McGriffy,”
― David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

“This search order is called the new-style MRO for “method resolution order” (and often just MRO for short when used in contrast with the DFLR order). Despite the name, this is used for all attributes in Python, not just methods.”
― Mark Lutz, Learning Python: Powerful Object-Oriented Programming

“Of course, as I’ve pointed out numerous times in this book, type checking is usually the wrong thing to do in Python programs (we code to object interfaces, not object types), and the more general isinstance built-in is more likely what you’ll want to use in the rare cases where instance class types must be queried.”
― Mark Lutz, Learning Python: Powerful Object-Oriented Programming