This isn't really spaghetti code, though, it's a syntactic sugar optimization gone wrong due to the Python 2 str/unicode split. It's in the same league as peop

This isn't really spaghetti code, though, it's a syntactic sugar optimization gone wrong due to the Python 2 str/unicode split. It's in the same league as people overloading operators in C++ to do silly things. While some people like to harp on that, I don't think those instances are prevalent enough to actually cause that many bugs. YMMV.