[Tutor] Getting confusing NameError

[Wayne Werner]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 3:48 AM, shane brennan <wiserwaylander at gmail.com>wrote:

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> again thanks for everything, and hopefully ill be around here for a long
> time and once i get a more experienced i can contribute back
>

You don't need to be /too/ experienced. Contributing here is actually how I
learned Python as much and as well as I did. When someone asked a question
(especially interesting ones), I made it a point to try and answer them. If
I didn't already know the answer I would go Google and try to find the
answer. Sometimes it was over my head and I wasn't able to form a decent
reply before others, but many times I was able to understand the problem and
question and fire off some fairly good information.

And if you preface your post with "I'm new to this part of Python, but I
looked it up and this is what I found..." or some other self effacing
statement that shows you're pretty confident in your answer but you're
perfectly willing to be taught if you were wrong - which will (usually) keep
you from looking like a cocky noob, and look like more like a humble acolyte
trying to do your best to help out a fellow Pythonista.

At least that's my experience ;)
-Wayne
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