Python docs disappointing - group effort to hire writers?

[Bill Jones]

On Aug 8, 3:27 pm, Mark Lawrence <breamore... at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Kee Nethery wrote:
> > As someone trying to learn the language I want to say that the tone on
> > this list towards people who are trying to learn Python  feels like it
> > has become anti-newbies.
>
> [snip]
>
> > Kee Nethery
>
> My gut feeling (which could of course be wrong) is that many hard core
> Pythonistas are cheesed off with newbies who refuse to help themselves.

The funny thing is that their response is to shutdown changes that are
intended
to *help* newbies help themselves. It seems self-defeating to me.