[Tutor] Newbie to Python: enumerate XML tags (keys that will become headers) along with text (values) and write to CSV in one row (as opposed to "stacked" values with one header)

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 02:42:16PM -0400, Saran Ahluwalia wrote:

> My question can be found here:
> 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31058100/enumerate-column-headers-in-csv-that-belong-to-the-same-tag-key-in-python

You might think you are saving time in not typing the question twice, 
but you're not. You're just limiting the number of people who might 
answer your question, which means it will take you even longer to get 
the answer. The 30 seconds that you save by not writing the question 
here might cost you hours or days to get an answer.

I'm reading your question via email, and it is inconvenient for me to 
switch to a browser and go read the question on another site, copy the 
question, paste it back into an email, manually edit that to quote it 
(add > to the beginning of each line), and then respond. If I really 
cared about your question, if it was a topic that interested me greatly, 
I might do it. But I don't like dealing with XML and I think CSV is 
boring, so I won't.

Other tutors might be browsing their email from a network that blocks 
Stackoverflow, so they cannot see the question at all.



-- 
Steve