On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > On 24/01/2014 17:19, Ram Rachum wrote: >> >> Hmm, on one hand I understand the need for the separation between >> python-dev and python-list, but on the other hand I don't think >> python-list is a good place to discuss Python, the language. >> >> I now looked at the 17 most recent python-list threads. Out of them: >> >> - 58% are about third-party packages. >> - 17% are off-topic (not even programming related) >> - 11% are 2-vs-3 discussions >> - 5% are job offers. >> - 5% (which is just one thread out of 17) is about Python the language. >> > > > I'm extremely impressed by your knowledge of statistics, it must have taken > you many man years of effort to analyse all 17 threads in such detail. > > >> So can you understand why someone would be reluctant to start a >> discussion in python-list about Python the language there? Especially if >> this is the same place where beginners might ask newbies questions about >> Python? (So not only are actual Python questions just 5% of the content, >> non-newbie questions are just a subset of that 5%.) >> >> it's full of people asking about third-party Python packages, or asking >> newbie questions. >> > > How terrible, fancy having the audacity to ask about third party packages or > newbie questions on the *MAIN* Python mailing list. There's yet another > reason to bring back the death penalty in the UK.
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