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[ThreeBlindQuarks]

Alan,

Basically, "basic" can mean many things to people.

It is definitely your forum for setting guidelines and the choice of others whether to participate in some activities.

I only mean that for some of us who volunteer here, the goal is to help get people who are already learning elsewhere, with some aspect of python or to find out what went wrong with their code or perhaps ideas. Some more detailed requests can be seen as being asked to do their work for them, not educate. Some may be willing either on the forum or offline.

But I am not speaking for others.

If in my private life, as has happened, I am asked to help someone learn something from the beginning and very interactively, fine. But if someone here asks if they should learn Python and wants instruction in public gradually over many months, I will opt out.

I did not see the question as a general computing concept question. It was a brief message, not one saying they had tried while and for loops and had started looking at comprehensions and generators and perhaps constructs in other languages, and wondered when some were better to use than others. 

I encourage people to follow up a general question with a bit more detail to help guide those answering to meet their needs and not waste too much time for all involved.




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------- Original Message -------
On Wednesday, April 19th, 2023 at 12:29 PM, Alan Gauld via Tutor <tutor at python.org> wrote:


> On 19/04/2023 17:13, ThreeBlindQuarks via Tutor wrote:
> 
> > ...the people here are not tutors in the sense of
> > teaching very basic things
> 
> 
> To be fair some of us are.
> 
> And discussing general computing concepts is definitely
> part of this group's remit (one of the things that
> separates us from the general Python list).
> 
> > more focused question so we can provide more focused help.
> 
> 
> But the more focused a question is the more focused will
> be the answer! That much is always true.
> 
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