David Abrahams said:
> "Ed Brey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>> Incidentally, no Boost.Python user has reported confusion about
>>> extract, and they tend to be slightly more naive than the average
>>> Boost user.
>>
>> Unfortunately, that data point is of limited use, since Python has a
>> lot of names leaving something to be desired (generally those borrowed
>> from C and Unix). When I was a Python newby, insetad of complaining,
>> I just got used to looking up functions in the docs to be sure I knew
>> what they did.
>
> Are you kidding? Python users (almost) never read docs!
> {sorry all you other Python users out there; it's just my impression}.
No? I thought this sort of thing was done all the time:
>>> import os
>>> help(os)
....
>>> help(os.path)
....
I know I do it a lot.
--
William E. Kempf
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