Re: How to tell people to ask questions the smart way

2012-09-05 Thread Andrew Artajos
Stack Overflow has a nice guideline on how to ask a question. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask/advice? -- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to tell people to ask questions the smart way

2012-09-05 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 05/09/2012 08:00, Andreas Perstinger wrote: On 05.09.2012 01:05, Ben Finney wrote: Andreas Perstinger writes: On 04.09.2012 11:34, Paolo wrote: > how do I know if a JTextField has the focus? > thank to all Look there: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#forum That is an un

Re: How to tell people to ask questions the smart way

2012-09-05 Thread Andreas Perstinger
On 05.09.2012 01:05, Ben Finney wrote: Andreas Perstinger writes: On 04.09.2012 11:34, Paolo wrote: > how do I know if a JTextField has the focus? > thank to all Look there: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#forum That is an unhelpful response. So we have to agree to disag

Re: How to tell people to ask questions the smart way

2012-09-04 Thread rusi
On Sep 5, 4:27 am, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 05/09/2012 00:05, Ben Finney wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Andreas Perstinger writes: > > >> On 04.09.2012 11:34, Paolo wrote: > >>> how do I know if a JTextField has the focus? > >>> thank to all > > >> Look there: > >>http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smar

Re: How to tell people to ask questions the smart way

2012-09-04 Thread Dwight Hutto
Just to play advocatus diaboli, what if some seemingly simple questions are asked just to jump in and start talking python? In other words, they just wanna talk shop, no matter what it is. An OT(off topic) so to speak, and have an enlightened, and evolutionary(via brain structured acceptance of da

Re: How to tell people to ask questions the smart way

2012-09-04 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 05/09/2012 00:05, Ben Finney wrote: >> >>> Look there: >>> http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#forum >> >> The “how to ask question the smart way” essay is not a blunt instrument >> for beating people over the head with, and i

Re: How to tell people to ask questions the smart way

2012-09-04 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 05/09/2012 00:05, Ben Finney wrote: Andreas Perstinger writes: On 04.09.2012 11:34, Paolo wrote: how do I know if a JTextField has the focus? thank to all Look there: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#forum That is an unhelpful response. You aren't giving anything to he

How to tell people to ask questions the smart way (was: focus on jtextfield)

2012-09-04 Thread Ben Finney
Andreas Perstinger writes: > On 04.09.2012 11:34, Paolo wrote: > > how do I know if a JTextField has the focus? > > thank to all > > Look there: > http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#forum That is an unhelpful response. You aren't giving anything to help the original poster improve