On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 8:33 PM, Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 01/09/2017 06:02 PM, Deborah Swanson wrote: >> Fair enough. I only suggested that they could have started their own >> thread, but mainly just to point out that they would have been off-topic >> if they did. I didn't demand that they do so, I just wanted them to >> think about it. > > I don't see how it would be any more off-topic than your original query. > Which is to say, talking about Python's use of the console (beit a Win32 > Console API window, a terminal emulator, or a PyCharm window) is on-topic. > >> I also prefer a loosely controlled list, and a freewheeling list is >> ideal, but it only works well if people exercise basic politeness and >> common sense. > > I agree. Be aware that your own posts in this thread have bordered on > inflammatory on occasion. Certainly your remark about "any educated > person would know that" could be taken in a very negative way. I can't > remember everything I read in this thread, but I'm hard-pressed to find > examples where people were not polite to you, even though you pressed on > with certain lines of comment, especially when it was pointed out that > your question came from the wrong premise and idea of what the "console" > is. I don't believe that someone pointing out flaws in your > understanding is inherently rude, though I think you took it as such. > > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Well put Michael -- Joel Goldstick http://joelgoldstick.com/blog http://cc-baseballstats.info/stats/birthdays -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
