Op Wednesday 29 Apr 2015 22:51 CEST schreef Mark Lawrence: > On 29/04/2015 18:08, Cecil Westerhof wrote: >> Op Wednesday 29 Apr 2015 18:04 CEST schreef Mark Lawrence: >> >>>> From the amount of messages you could think I am a spammer. ;-) >>>> >>> >>> Did you mean spanner? ;-) >> >> My English is not good enough to understand what you mean by this. >> > > Seek, and ye shall find. > > <quote> (UK, mildly derogatory) A stupid or unintelligent person; > one prone to making mistakes, especially in language. You spanner, > Rodney! I wanted a Chinese, not an Indian! </quote>
Well, I used Google (or rather DuckDuckGo) and did not find this one. > Nothing personal in this, I simply find the homour here often more > interesting than the theoretical claptrap that some go on about. Not > only that, from the Zen of Python, "Practicality beats purity". :-) > As for being a spammer, nonsense, it's rather pleasant to see > someone with real code asking real questions. Carry on like this and > you'll soon be on the bug tracker at bugs.python.org fixing things, > instead of the throngs who simply love complaining, but in reality > do nothing about it. Hint, hint, didn't you ask on another thread > about what module you could write for Python :) Fixing bugs is even better as writing modules. I would not mind if you would be right. :-D -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
