rantingrick a écrit :
Seems like the only thing people are interested in is bickering and name calling. I noticed the post "Does Python really follow..." has over 400 post mainly from the same 10 people.
There are occasionally such kind of threads, indeed. And, as Mike mentionned, the usual FAQs (some of them twice or more each week, year after year). And sometimes more interesting questions - but that does not necessarily makes long thread, so they perhaps are too low for your radar.
Maybe this is why Guido no longer wishes to be a part of this group.
I've been lurking here for years (about early 2000 IIRC), and don't remember a single post from the BDFL here. But:
Where is the sense of community here?
If you set the occasional trolls aside, this group is usually newbie-friendly and helpful one. You'll find quite a few posts by long-time, experienced and talented Python programmers (and core developpers). As far as I'm concerned, I learned (and I'm still learning) quite a lot here.
Please visit comp.databases or comp.lang.javascript for really unfriendly and unhelpful places where few happens except "bickering and name-calling".
Anybody care to correct me, because i would love to be wrong about this, but i fear i am 100% correct.
Well, why don't you just try and post a couple practical questions here? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
