* Steve Holden:
Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
* Stefan Behnel:
Alf P. Steinbach, 12.01.2010 12:51:
Well how f*****g darn patient do they expect me to be?
I've decided: I'm not.
Oh sh**, just as I typed the period above the mail finally arrived.
It's been, let's see, about 20+ minutes!
And still some miles to go.
Somebody should say THANK YOU for all this effort, pointing out not
just the bug but exactly what needs fixing, not whining about me not
wasting half an hour on going through proper channels after already
wasting much time on that bug!
Maybe you should just stop using the module. Writing the code yourself
is certainly going to be faster than reporting that bug, don't you think?
It's part of the standard Python distribution.
Don't you think bugs in the standard library should be fixed?
Anyways, is there any alternative for wave output in Windows except
writing the thing from scratch?
For what it's worth, reporting the bug is the right decision. Had you
gone to the trouble of a rewrite and proposed your new module for the
standard library the first discovery you would have made is that nothing
gets accepted without a commitment of maintenance.
Clearly that would have been too much to accept when you merely wish to
correct a small-ish bug in an already satisfactory module.
Thanks again, and I hope the change gets into 3.2, and also the next 3.1
maintenance release. The only remaining requirement is some developer
time, but that is our scarcest resource.
regards
Steve
PS: Next time it would have helped to include a URL to the issue.
http://bugs.python.org/issue7681
FYI there is already some feedback in the tracker.
Yeah, someone who had the bright idea that maybe there isn't a bug, thinking
instead that maybe a "wrong" name in *a comment* might be the culprit -- of
all things!
He was probably just trying to be helpful.
But what do you say to someone who tries to help but is really just making a
mess of things? Obama tackled that nicely when he got Thorbjørned (Thorbjørn
Jagland applying some heavy pressure to give him the Nobel Peace Price). But I'm
not Obama...
Cheers,
- Alf
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