On 15/04/2014 20:07, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:02 AM, Phil Dobbin <phildob...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 15/04/2014 19:41, Chris Angelico wrote: >> >>> Recommendation: If you don't understand something, keep it there :) >>> You can just copy and paste from the Python interactive interpreter >>> (command line or IDLE) straight into the email; it'll be easier to >>> explain, that way. >>> >>> This is *especially* true of tracebacks. You might not see the >>> difference, but to us, it's often hugely helpful to see the entire >>> exception report. >> >> Good advice. >> >> Truth is I'm writing emails on my laptop & attempting Python on a >> Desktop machine so I lazily copied by eye. My mistake. > > Understandable. I currently am using two consoles (laptop at my right > hand, desktop in front of me), and every now and then I want to copy > and paste across them :) I mean, shared clipboard works just fine > across all my VM guests (and as I type that, Disney's cast is singing > "Be our guest" in my background music), it even works across remote > desktop, but for some reason, swinging my hands 90 degrees doesn't > transfer the clipboard. This strikes me as a major flaw in human > beings.
:-) Couldn't agree more. Not enough thought put into that one whoever did it :-) Cheers, Phil... -- currently (ab)using CentOS 6.5, Debian Squeeze & Wheezy, Fedora 19 & 20, OS X Snow Leopard, RHEL 7, Ubuntu Precise & Saucy GnuGPG Key : http://phildobbin.org/publickey.asc Based in London, UK -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
