On Monday, March 5, 2012 7:10:50 PM UTC-6, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 14:07:05 -0800, John Salerno quoted: > > >> Wah! > >> > >> Stop whining and act like a professional! You complain about qualifying > >> constants but you happily type "self" until your fingers bleed without > >> even a whimper??? > > John, it is polite to leave attributions in place when you quote > somebody. I don't know who you are quoting above, but given the obnoxious > tone and the fact that this is about Tkinter, I'm guessing it is > RantingRick, a.k.a. Rick Johnson. > > Rick is a notorious troll, and you'll probably save yourself a lot of > grief if you pay no attention to him. It's not so much that his advice is > *always* bad, but that you'll spend so many hours sifting through the > piles of bad advice, unprofessional language, and annoying self- > aggrandisement for the occasional nugget of gold that it just isn't worth > it. > > Which is a pity, because I gather that Rick actually does know Tkinter > well. But dealing with him is like wrestling with a pig: > > "I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and > besides, the pig likes it." -- George Bernard Shaw > > > -- > Steven
Thank you. Sorry about the attribution. That was my fault because I was trying to cite just the relevant bits, and I cut off the header too. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
