[Tutor] Beginner - explaining 'Flip a coin' bug

Neil Cerutti neilc at norwich.edu
Wed Feb 12 22:30:22 CET 2014


On 2014-02-12, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 02:08:17PM -0500, Dave Angel wrote:
>> Next time please post in text form rather than html, and
>> actually include the code you're asking us to comment on.
>
> Dave, your tools are letting you down. Marc did post in text, and did 
> include his code, as you can see from the multipart attachments to his 
> email:
>
>   I     1 <no description>        [multipa/alternativ, 7bit, 2.0K]
>   I     2 ??????><no description>     [text/plain, quoted, iso-8859-1, 0.7K]
>   I     3 ??????><no description>     [text/html, quoted, iso-8859-1, 1.0K]
>   A     4 coinflip.py             [text/x-script.p, base64, us-ascii, 0.6K]
>   A     5 coinflip_WRONG.py       [text/x-script.p, base64, us-ascii, 0.6K]
>   I     6 <no description>        [text/plain, 7bit, us-ascii, 0.2K]
>
>
> Perhaps it is time for you to give up on whatever tool you are
> using to read this mailing list, or at least to change your
> assumption when you see a contentless message from "Original
> poster didn't send email" to "I can't see the email".

This is also a USENET newsgroup, where attachements are not a
thing.

-- 
Neil Cerutti



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