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[Luke Paireepinart]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> lmhosie at jacks.sdstate.edu wrote:
>>
>> Hello All,
>> I am having an issue with lists and am not sure where to go from here any
>> advice appreciated. I colored the areas of concern.
>> blue my comments
>> purple example of output
>> red area area concerned
>
> You may have coloured the text before you sent it, but the colours did not
> survive being sent to a mailing list. Everything you have written is a nice,
> plain black.
>
> Colouring text is no substitute for actually taking the time to explain:
>
> * what you tried;
> * what you expected to happen;
> * what happened instead.
>
> It is good practice to try to reduce the code to the smallest amount that
> actually demonstrates the same problem.

Actually the color survived on my end, but all of steven's other
comments about noise and unnecessary text applies.  Even with the
color, I didn't bother reading your question because it seemed to me
like you didn't bother formulating a good question either.