[Graham Guttocks]
Guido van Rossum
wrote: Graham, you have worn out your welcome here.
Well, I apologize for bringing up a subject you don't enjoy talking about. Has anyone ever told you guys that you don't handle constructive criticism well? I've seen it as a lurker on this list as well as c.l.p, and now firsthand.
OK, now I have been basically ignoring this thread and purposely staying out of this whole mini-flame war that is starting. But I have to disagree with the suggestion that this list, as a whole, cannot handle constructive criticism. I have to read every single piece of email that comes through this list and yes, some people can get a little snappy. But first of all most people here are volunteering their time here and when something that is stupid or has a hint of insult it flips a switch (I know it does in me). And second, we are all human (except Timbot, effbot, and Alexbot when he pops in from time to time). When this list gets a question about something that is asked constantly it just wears on some of us and we just want to ignore it. And yet people still responded to your question, which is more than some lists will do. But this list's integrity is very high. Saying the people here cannot take criticism is, to quote Guido, "bullshit". Every point here is argued and people still manage to keep it "clean" as long as you don't come in here making accusations. When someone comes in and suggests something hasn't been done because it might be "too difficult", most of us take it personally (I would suspect Guido especially). It is a suggestion that the knowledge of this list is not high enough to do this. As has been stated, though, it just has not been a priority of python-dev to worry about this and has nothing to do with ability. If you are that worried about performance, code it in C and hook into Python. It is going to take someone caring enough to actually write a solution and no one here cares enough. But you have been "trolling" this list, so you know all of this by now. I-can't-believe-I-managed-to-prevent-msyelf-from-yelling-ly yr's, Brett