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james2vegas on July 9, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Anti-Patterns in Python Programming

perhaps that line was written by someone used to Perl, where they would have had

@a_list_of_words = qw/my list of words/;

there

dozzie on July 9, 2014 | [–]

Or rubyst:

  a_list_of_words = %w{my list of words}

rbonvall on July 10, 2014 | [–]

You'd be sure if they wrote:

    >>> qw = str.split
    >>> qw('my list of words')
    ['my', 'list', 'of', 'words']

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