Andy Robinson wrote:

--- Gordon McMillan <gmcm@hypernet.com> wrote:

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C'mon guys, hasn't anyone ever played consultant before? The idea is obviously brain-dead. OTOH, they asked for it specifically, meaning they have some assumptions about how they think they're going to use it. If you give them what they ask for, you'll only have to fix it when they realize there are other ways of doing things that don't work with per-thread defaults. So, you find out why they think it's a good thing; you make it easy for them to code this way (without actually using per-thread defaults) and you don't make a fuss about it. More than likely, they won't either.

I wrote directly to ask them exactly this last night. Let's forget the per-thread thing until we get an answer.

That's the way to go, Andy. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg ______________________________________________________________________ Y2000: 49 days left Business: http://www.lemburg.com/ Python Pages: http://www.lemburg.com/python/

Andy Robinson wrote:

--- Gordon McMillan <gmcm@hypernet.com> wrote:

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C'mon guys, hasn't anyone ever played consultant before? The idea is obviously brain-dead. OTOH, they asked for it specifically, meaning they have some assumptions about how they think they're going to use it. If you give them what they ask for, you'll only have to fix it when they realize there are other ways of doing things that don't work with per-thread defaults. So, you find out why they think it's a good thing; you make it easy for them to code this way (without actually using per-thread defaults) and you don't make a fuss about it. More than likely, they won't either.

I wrote directly to ask them exactly this last night. Let's forget the per-thread thing until we get an answer.

That's the way to go, Andy. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg ______________________________________________________________________ Y2000: 49 days left Business: http://www.lemburg.com/ Python Pages: http://www.lemburg.com/python/