[BangPypers] https://github.com/pythonhacker/ladies.py

steve steve at lonetwin.net
Sat Sep 7 19:14:52 CEST 2013


Hi,

On Sunday 08 September 2013 01:07 AM, svaksha wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Vinayak Hegde <vinayakh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Svaksha,
>>
>> This can be fixed by sending a mail to the author and in this case,
>> forking, modifying and asking for a pull request.
>>
>> Why is there a necessity to name and shame ?
>
> Is'nt Anand Pillai a PSF member? This is hardly what one expects from
> a PSF member.
>
>
>>   I did not find anything
>> derogatory in the code (that I checked).
>
> From, https://github.com/pythonhacker/ladies.py/blob/master/__init__.py
>
> def get_purpose():
>      """ Return the purpose """
>      raise AmbiguousMissionError, "Mission unclear"
>
>

FWIW, I'm more intrigued by the isnt_that_odd() function. Maybe the intent is 
not merely being cheeky, there's something deeper that Anand felt strongly 
enough to create this repo ? Should we perhaps discuss that publicly too ?

cheers,
- steve


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