Diversity in Python (was Re: Need cleanup advice for multiline string)

[Jean-Michel Pichavant]

Aahz wrote:
> In article <461cc6f1-fc23-4bc7-a719-6f29babf8bcd at o15g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>,
> Robert Dailey  <rcdailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> It's a figure of speech. And besides, why would I want programming
>> advice from a woman? lol. Thanks for the help.
>>     
>
> Well, I'm sorry to see this, it means I was wrong about the lack of
> sexism in the Python community.  I encourage anyone who wants to improve
> the situation to join the new diversity list:
>
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/diversity
>   
Are you suggesting this list reject part of the community regarding its 
sexual orientation, ethnicity, size, culture? If that was the case I'd 
like to know about it.
I would really want to know how you'd guess my gender (could be some 
clue somewhere), my sexual orientation, my religion and so on.
How can you reject someone regarding informations you don't have ?

That's the beauty of this mailing list, it has diversity, by design.
We even welcome people that mixes up joke with sexist aggression, not to 
mention how open minded we are :o)

Beside, the day you'll meet a real act of sexism in this list, please 
know that people talk and act on their own, do not assign their attitude 
to the whole community.
You'll know that Python is sexist the day you'll find the title 'No 
women allowed' on the python main document page.

JM

PS : Newbies are not welcome here !