On Apr 10, 11:35 am, Neil Cerutti <ne...@norwich.edu> wrote: > On 2010-04-10, Patrick Maupin <pmau...@gmail.com> wrote: > > as Pyparsing". Which is all well and good, except then the OP > > will download pyparsing, take a look, realize that it uses > > regexps under the hood, and possibly be very confused. > > I don't agree with that. If a person is trying to ski using > pieces of wood that they carved themselves, I don't expect them > to be surprised that the skis they buy are made out of similar > materials.
But, in this case, the guy ASKED how to make the skis in his woodworking shop, and was told not to be silly -- you don't use wood to make skis -- and then directed to go buy some skis that are, in fact, made out of wood. I think it would have been perfectly appropriate to point out that it might take some additional woodworking equipment and a bit of experience and/or study and/or extra work to make decent skis out of wood (and, oh, by the way, here is where you can buy some ready-made skis cheap), but the original response didn't explain it like this. Regards, Pat -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
