PEP 259: Revise to remove context-driven magic from print

David LeBlanc whisper at oz.nospamnet
Sat Jun 16 00:20:05 EDT 2001


In article <9gbess$gla$3 at newshost.accu.uu.nl>, m.faassen at vet.uu.nl 
says...
> David LeBlanc <whisper at oz.nospamnet> wrote:
> 
> [effbot negative response]
> 
> > <rant>I don't see why you consider this a joke, nor do I see the 
> > ignorance and arrogance which you seem to. I think it's kind of 
> > unfortunate that an influential person in the python world, such as 
> > yourself, would swat down someone's idea without even saying why! Quite a 
> > way to discourage people from having new ideas whether right or wrong. 
> > </rant>
> 
> Well, Fredrik did quote some relevant bits from the original proposal
> that he considered arrogant.
> 
> It's just the way the effbot works; a Perl regex is sometimes clogging
> up its neural net. See here for more information on the effbot:
> 
> http://www.twistedmatrix.com/users/jh.twistd/python/moin.cgi/PythonRolePlayingGame
> 
> No offense to anyone; some additional consideration on all sides might've
> helped, but then again everyone's inconsiderate at times, and a strong
> reply isn't always awful. I wasn't nice to Guido a few posts back,
> myself. Sorry Guido. :)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Martijn
> 
I am new to the ways of the effbot :-)

Thanks for being a mediating influence :-)

Regards,

Dave LeBlanc



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