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Steven D'Aprano
It has been suggested to me off-list that my
response(s) to Bill Mill in the "is this pythonic"
thread were rude and hostile.
If that is what people saw in my posts, then I
apologise, because that wasn't my intention. In fact,
my comments weren't especially even aimed at Bill --
they were intended as more general comments about
finding a balance between dismissing questions by
pointing to the Python references, and guiding the
questioner to learn the skills to be able to use the
references effectively. I know I'm not yet at that
stage: I still hit road-blocks in knowing where to look
at times, and I guess that made me over-sensitive.
In hindsight, it would have been better for me to have
cut Bill's comments from my reply, and just make
allusions to a nebulous "they" who sometimes have a
tendency towards using "RTFM" as an answer to anything,
because Bill's specific was less dismissive and more
supportive than what you can get on many newsgroups. I
agree with his basic sentiments, although I might not
have worded it in precisely the same way.
(Given how I put my foot in it when I did reply,
perhaps that's not a bad thing.)
My apologies to Bill specifically, and [shameless
brown-nosing here] thank you to the comp.lang.python
community, which as a whole is far more tolerent than
many other forums I've been on.
response(s) to Bill Mill in the "is this pythonic"
thread were rude and hostile.
If that is what people saw in my posts, then I
apologise, because that wasn't my intention. In fact,
my comments weren't especially even aimed at Bill --
they were intended as more general comments about
finding a balance between dismissing questions by
pointing to the Python references, and guiding the
questioner to learn the skills to be able to use the
references effectively. I know I'm not yet at that
stage: I still hit road-blocks in knowing where to look
at times, and I guess that made me over-sensitive.
In hindsight, it would have been better for me to have
cut Bill's comments from my reply, and just make
allusions to a nebulous "they" who sometimes have a
tendency towards using "RTFM" as an answer to anything,
because Bill's specific was less dismissive and more
supportive than what you can get on many newsgroups. I
agree with his basic sentiments, although I might not
have worded it in precisely the same way.
(Given how I put my foot in it when I did reply,
perhaps that's not a bad thing.)
My apologies to Bill specifically, and [shameless
brown-nosing here] thank you to the comp.lang.python
community, which as a whole is far more tolerent than
many other forums I've been on.