Well, Paul might deserve a bit of the blame. He's written a code snippet or two of "Lisp in Python" -- unpythonic code that mimics the way Lisp does it, because

Well, Paul might deserve a bit of the blame. He's written a code snippet or two of "Lisp in Python" -- unpythonic code that mimics the way Lisp does it, because he likes Lisp. See: http://www.prescod.net/python/IsPythonLisp.html http://www.prescod.net/python/IsPythonLisp.html