On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 12:27 PM, superchromix <mark...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > hi all, > > I've been thinking about learning Python for scientific programming.. but all > of these flame war type posts make the user community look pretty lame. How > did all of these nice packages get written when most of the user interaction > is .... this?? > > Can anyone tell me, is there another newsgroup where the discussion is more > on python programming?
Please don't judge the whole community by this thread, I promise we're not all bad! The majority of the traffic on this list is of a useful sort, and you can learn fairly quickly the addresses that are best ignored, blocked, or otherwise passed over. For myself using Gmail, I have a filter set up to mark particular threads that I don't want to be notified about and mute them after the first few mails come in. I didn't see your message initially because it was part of a muted thread, I only saw it at all because the thread spilled over the 100 message mark into a "new" thread in Gmail with one of the replies to your message. Also, if you have a specific question about how to do something in Python you can try the tutor list (tu...@python.org) which is much more focused, much lower traffic, and has several very knowledgeable Pythonistas listening in. Give us a chance, and I don't think we'll let you down :) -- Zach -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
