"Rhodri James" <rho...@wildebst.demon.co.uk> writes: > On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 19:28:48 +0100, Steve Ferg > <steve.ferg.bitbuc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Seriously, we can't keep doing your thinking for you. The answers > >> to all your questions are section 9 of the tutorial. > > > > This is is just the kind of newbie-hostile smart-ass reply that we do > > not want to see on comp.lang.python. […]
> With Peng Yu, we've been through that quite a lot. It seemed time to > be a little sharper in the hope that learning might emerge. As someone who generally deplores sharp replies to newbies for the negative effect on the community as a whole and on later newcomers in particular: I have to agree with Rhodri here. This specific case has reached a point where some sharpness is warranted, in my opinion. Peng Yu, please take Rhodri's reply in a spirit of mentoring. You have all the tools at your disposal and they have been pointed out to you numerous times. When asking a question of others, please demonstrate that you have exhausted the existing resources you clearly know you have available to you. -- \ “What we usually pray to God is not that His will be done, but | `\ that He approve ours.” —Helga Bergold Gross | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
