On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:47:58 -0700, Robert Dailey wrote: > On Aug 12, 9:41 am, Robert Dailey <rcdai...@gmail.com> wrote: ... > > I was actually joking about my remark, I was making fun of the fact > > that Bearophile took my figure of speech literally.
Keep in mind that the Internet is a global forum, and not everyone here speaks English as a first language. I believe Bearophile is one of those. Although his, or possibly her, English is excellent, it wouldn't surprise me that (s)he would misinterpret "guys" as just referring to men. I'm a native English speaker, and I would have done the same. > > I have worked with > > a lot of women in the past and they even use "guys" to refer to > > everyone in a room (When there were obviously other females in that > > room as well). Yes, I've seen this myself, but it's still uncommon enough to surprise me every time I see it. > > On a more serious note, I do apologize to those offended by my remark. > > I realize that these things can be a touchy subject for some people. I > > expected more of a laid-back attitude from everyone. No need to be so > > serious all the time. I cannot completely doubt that there are logical > > women out there. I just haven't seen one yet. That's okay, I haven't seen terribly many logical men out there either. > Oh, one last thing... So everyone knows, I chose the following > formatting solution to multiline strings: > > def MyFunction(): > multilineString = ( > 'This is a string that spans ' > 'multiple lines.' > ) > print( multilineString ) > > I think this is as good as it is going to get for my personal needs. > However, I do not like having to put a space at the end of each > string. So put them at the beginning of the next line. It makes the space more obvious, so it's clearer what you have done. That's what I sometimes do. > I've also done this in the past, which is slightly more ugly: > > multilineString = ( > 'This is a string that spans', > 'multiple lines.' > ) > print( ' '.join( multilineString ) ) It's also less efficient, as it does the concatenation at runtime instead of compile time. But for a small script, that's not likely to be a problem worth worrying about. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
