It has been suggested to me off-list that my response(s) to Bill Mill in the "is this pythonic" thread were rude and hostile.
If that is what people saw in my posts, then I apologise, because that wasn't my intention. In fact, my comments weren't especially even aimed at Bill -- they were intended as more general comments about finding a balance between dismissing questions by pointing to the Python references, and guiding the questioner to learn the skills to be able to use the references effectively. I know I'm not yet at that stage: I still hit road-blocks in knowing where to look at times, and I guess that made me over-sensitive. In hindsight, it would have been better for me to have cut Bill's comments from my reply, and just make allusions to a nebulous "they" who sometimes have a tendency towards using "RTFM" as an answer to anything, because Bill's specific was less dismissive and more supportive than what you can get on many newsgroups. I agree with his basic sentiments, although I might not have worded it in precisely the same way. (Given how I put my foot in it when I did reply, perhaps that's not a bad thing.) My apologies to Bill specifically, and [shameless brown-nosing here] thank you to the comp.lang.python community, which as a whole is far more tolerent than many other forums I've been on. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
