On 02Jul2013 19:46, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote:
| In article <mailman.4125.1372798337.3114.python-l...@python.org>,
| Ned Deily <n...@acm.org> wrote:
|
| > If you find a bug in Python, don't send it to comp.lang.python; file
| > a bug report in the issue tracker.
|
| I'm not sure I agree with that one, at least not fully. It's certainly
| true that you shouldn't expect anybody to do anything about a bug unless
| you open an issue.
|
| On the other hand, I often find it useful to discuss things that I
| believe are bugs on c.l.p first. Sometimes people will explain to me
| that I'm just doing it wrong. Sometimes the discussion will end up
| with, "Yeah, that's a bug". In either case, it serves as a good initial
| filter for whether I should file a bug or not, and the discussion is
| often educational.
+1
I've certinly been educated that way.
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