Why not just show the out-of-range index?

[Bill Maxwell]

On Sun, 3 Dec 2006 23:31:56 -0500, Jean-Paul Calderone
<exarkun at divmod.com> wrote:

>On 3 Dec 2006 17:23:49 -0800, Russ <uymqlp502 at sneakemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Rather, they (like I) will encourage to OP to submit a patch that fixes the problem.
>>
>>Now, that would be rather silly. I would have to familiarize myself
>>with the code for the Python interpreter, then send a patch to the
>>maintainers (and hope they notice it in their inboxes), while the
>>maintainers themselves could probably "fix" the problem in two minutes
>>flat. No thanks!
>
>And I have some laundry that I would like you to do for me.  Let me know
>when a convenient time for you to pick it up would be.
>
>Jean-Paul


Are you saying that you place such low value on feedback from Python
users that you don't even want them to try and ask questions that might
help to improve the language?

In other words, if I'm not skilled or knowledgeable enough to improve
something myself, I shouldn't even mention it?


Bill