On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 3:46 AM, geremy condra <debat...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Ha! That *lengthy* thread started fairly soon after I joined this >> list. It was highly... informative. I learned a bit about Python, and >> a lot about python-list, from the posts there. > > So what are we talking about here? Reduce?
There was a huge thread about the removal of the cmp parameter to sort() in Python 3.x. It was quite a wide-ranging discussion, touched on many things. I think it got up to 90 posts in the first day, or something. The main thing it taught me was that python-list is a high traffic list; the next most important thing was who the courteous posters are. In contrast, the thread on NaNs in Python has taught me more about the difference between floating point and 'real numbers' in a week or two than all my previous computing training put together. Yep, this is an interesting list. Chris Angelico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
