metaperl wrote: > I was shocked to see the personal insults hurled in this thread: > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/d0758cb9545cad4b > > I have been very pleased with Python developers regardless of skill > levels in both the IRC channel as well as here - no hot attitudes. No > holier than thou put ons. I was just sinking into the comradery and > cooperative nature of this new powerful community when I saw that > thread. > > Well, I hope that the fact that 99% of the Python community, from Guido > von Rossum on down continues to exemplify how a language can be good > and the people can be friendly and that the other 1% get inspired by > their positivity and switch as well...
I've reviewed a little the thread. I've not evaluated the possible use-cases of "cgi.escape". The question is always: who start's the use of insults? I just noticed one thing: The OP wrote (refering to an implementationd detail, which btw. has possible resulted after many days of thought/trials in context of several use-cases): "This seems to me to be dumb" http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/d0758cb9545cad4b which could be interpreted as: "the implementor seems to be dumb" So, personally I think the implementor was free to reply "bla bla bla, you idiot". This was not an insult. Just a gentle gesture (using similar wording as the OP). . -- http://lazaridis.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
