On 2023-03-09, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 10 Mar 2023 at 10:04, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Yeesh. What's _really_ embarassing is that I just stumbled across a >> small test program with which I had apparently figured this out >> 10-12 years ago. Must be about time to retire... > > You expect yourself to remember test programs you wrote a decade > ago?? I've forgotten full-on projects from that far back!
Another thing that has happened a few times is that I'm trying to figure out how to do something I'm pretty sure should be possible, but I can't figure out how. After the usual resources fail, then I start Googling with varous sets of keywords. After a while, Google eventually finds the answer in an old mailing-list archive where there's a nice explanation in a post... .... by me. > Though, congrats on being able to stumble across it. That's quite > something. After I figured out the answer, I realized it did seem a little familar, so I tried a grep -r in my home directory which has stuff lying around from as far back as 2001. When a computer dies, I generally just cp -a (or rsync -a) $HOME to a new one. -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
