On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 01:04 -0800, Russ wrote: > Robert Kern wrote: > > > Nothing is going to happen until you do one of these two things. Being more > > rude > > (and yes, you are being incredibly rude and insulting) won't move things > > along. > > I re-read the thread, and I don't see anywhere where I was rude
Please allow me to break it down for you: Your first reply on this thread, or second message, said: """ Now, that [submitting a patch that fixes the problem] would be rather silly. I would have to familiarize myself with the code for the Python interpreter, then send a patch to the maintainers (and hope they notice it in their inboxes), while the maintainers themselves could probably "fix" the problem in two minutes flat. No thanks! My suggestion is trivial to implement and would benefit every Python programmer (even if only slightly), so I don't think it is too much to ask for. """ You may not have meant this to be rude, but it does come off as rude and arrogant, and I'll explain to you why: In your first post you stated that the feature seems like a no-brainer to you. That implies to the reader that you might have the necessary skill to implement the feature yourself, hence Robert's suggestion to submit a patch was, in the context you gave yourself, neither unreasonable nor silly. I can see how your calling a reasonable suggestion by a valuable community member "silly" would be construed as rude and arrogant. Hope this helps, Carsten. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
