[Inpycon] Financial aid

[Steve Holden]

On Jul 20, 2011, at 3:13 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:

> On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 12:32 +0530, Anand Chitipothu wrote:
>>> there is no 3rd class in Indian railways. There is 1st ac, and 2nd
>> ac -
>>> either 2 or 3 tier.
>> 
>> 3 tier AC is called "third AC". Even indian railways calls it so.
>> http://indianrail.gov.in/between_Imp_Stations.html
>> 
>> We never talked about 3rd class, we were only talking about 3rd AC. 
> 
> not that it is worth arguing about - but that site is wrong.


Apparently is *is* worth arguing about, otherwise this thread could have been several posts shorter. But that's what you get for joining the Python community: we are the people who kepp the "anal" in "analysis"[1]

It's important that we don't seem mean ("cheap", for those of you who learned your English in America). It's also important that we aren't seen to be throwing largesse around (and there certainly doesn't appear to be any need for concern on that score by the published evidence of this list).

It *isn't* important what exact levels of service are available on Indian railways, and whether or not certain travel sites use correct nomenclature to describe those levels of service[2]. Fortunately this is a Python list, so everybody just stares at each other for a while and says "oh, yeah, we were being anal" and goes back to coding ;-)

regards
 Steve

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_retentive

[2]: Detail like that goes in footnotes. Even on conference web sites!
-- 
Steve Holden
steve at holdenweb.com



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