Jay Loden schrieb: > Well, I don't want to start a flamewar or anything like that
Nothing like that intended here either :) OTOH, on most forums, lists, boards, etc, I am active, the constant fear about "flamewars" annoys me somewhat. As long as it doesn't get insulting, derogative or bull-headed it should be perfectly OK (even when it becomes somewhat hot-blooded) > [... ]What I don't like is how frequently I run into things that just aren't > documented *well* ;) As an example, reading the docs for the "socket" module > repeatedly tells you things like 'see the UNIX manual' instead of just > documenting the appropriate information. I realize these are simply thin > wrappers for C sockets, but that still assumes your audience is rather > intimately familiar with socket programming in C on UNIX. Well, OK, but that's the drawback of a language with it's origin in the Unix scene. The other way, imagine some VisualBasic for Linux implementation.... (and try to get some info about some COM object) Anyway, we are going OT... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list