On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 07:12, Hendrik van Rooyen<m...@microcorp.co.za> wrote: > "Terry Reedy" <t....@..el.edu> wrote: > >> Gabriel Genellina wrote: >> > >> > In this case, a note in the documentation warning about the potential >> > confusion would be fine. >> >> How would that help someone who does not read the doc? > > It obviously won't. > > All it will do, is that it will enable people on this group, > who may read the manual, to tell people who complain, > to RTFM.
Yes, it's their problem if they don't read the docs. > > I agree that it would be a good idea to make it an > error, or a warning - "this might not do what you > think it does", or an "are you sure?" exception. > > :-) > > - Hendrik That would be even harder than adding a line to the docs. Besides, the problem that Mr. alex23 pointed: "where do you stop?" would really get out of hand. -- Pablo Torres N. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
