Stephen J. Turnbull turnbull.stephen.fw at u.tsukuba.ac.jp
Thu Jan 12 21:40:37 EST 2017

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Guido van Rossum writes:

 > AFAIK the term comes from a piece by Andrew Kuchling titled "Python warts".
 > The topic now has its own wiki page:
 > https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonWarts
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 > I believe that most of the warts are not even design missteps -- they are
 > emergent misfeatures, meaning nobody could have predicted how things would
 > work out.

More like surgical scars than warts, as I see it.

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