Re: How to answer questions from newbies

2014-02-16 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > Rustom Mody writes: > >> On Sunday, February 16, 2014 9:44:00 PM UTC+5:30, Roy Smith wrote: >> > Moi? >> >> See thats the problem with re's -- just 3 letters and completely >> incomprehensible! > > Actually, that's a regexp pattern that matche

Re: How to answer questions from newbies

2014-02-16 Thread Ben Finney
Rustom Mody writes: > On Sunday, February 16, 2014 9:44:00 PM UTC+5:30, Roy Smith wrote: > > Moi? > > See thats the problem with re's -- just 3 letters and completely > incomprehensible! Actually, that's a regexp pattern that matches two *or* three letters. -- \ “If nature has made an

Re: How to answer questions from newbies

2014-02-16 Thread Rustom Mody
On Sunday, February 16, 2014 9:44:00 PM UTC+5:30, Roy Smith wrote: > Moi? See thats the problem with re's -- just 3 letters and completely incomprehensible! It even resembles our resident unicode-troll Oui? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to answer questions from newbies

2014-02-16 Thread Roy Smith
In article , Rustom Mody wrote: > On Sunday, February 16, 2014 8:53:47 PM UTC+5:30, Roy Smith wrote: > > We get a lot of newbie questions on this list. People are eager to jump > > in and answer them (which is wonderful), but sometimes we get off on > > tangents about trivia and lose sight of

Re: How to answer questions from newbies

2014-02-16 Thread Rustom Mody
On Sunday, February 16, 2014 8:53:47 PM UTC+5:30, Roy Smith wrote: > We get a lot of newbie questions on this list. People are eager to jump > in and answer them (which is wonderful), but sometimes we get off on > tangents about trivia and lose sight of the real question, and our > audience. >

How to answer questions from newbies

2014-02-16 Thread Roy Smith
We get a lot of newbie questions on this list. People are eager to jump in and answer them (which is wonderful), but sometimes we get off on tangents about trivia and lose sight of the real question, and our audience. The particular one that set me off just now (I'm leaving off the names beca