On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 9:49 AM, Steve D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Sat, 20 May 2017 09:13 pm, bartc wrote: > >> On 20/05/2017 03:10, Chris Angelico wrote: >>> Without any specific questions, you're not going to get anything more >>> than a basic eyeballing of the code. >> >> Try running the program. >> >> (I did that but I can't follow this style of coding so can't help.) > > Chris is within his rights to refuse to run untrusted code downloaded over > the internet. > > It's not even the security aspect: the code is fairly short, and doesn't > appear to be obfuscated or do anything nasty. > > But its a matter of fairness: we're volunteers, not slaves or paid workers, > and we get to choose on what problems we work on. > > We're not being paid to solve people's problems, we're doing it from a sense > of community (and maybe to show off, a bit). We've only got so much time > and energy for solving people's problems, and the more vague those problems > are, the less likely we are to care enough to put the work in to solve it. > > Give us an interesting problem, and some of us will put *hours* of work into > it. But give us something vague or boring or trivial, and What's In It For > Us? > > The Original Poster garsink at gmail.com cares so little for our time that > he or she didn't even *ask* a question. Or give a name we can call them > (email addresses are so impersonal and unfriendly). Nothing but a pair of > statements: I need help, here's my code. > > Well, we all need help, and thank you for sharing. > > Why should we bother to run your code if you can't even be bothered to say > Please or Thank You or tell us what's wrong with it? > > "garsink", or whatever you would like us to call you, please help us to help > you. Don't expect us to run your code until you've made it interesting for > us. Please read this webpage before answering: > > http://sscce.org/ > > It is written for Java programmers, but it applies to Python too. > > Thank you. > > > > -- > Steve > Emoji: a small, fuzzy, indistinct picture used to replace a clear and > perfectly comprehensible word. > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
I took a look at the url from the email address. Its some private school for apparently youngish kids. So, a little perspective on the rather vague query. Poster, maybe try the python-tutor mailing list -- Joel Goldstick http://joelgoldstick.com/blog http://cc-baseballstats.info/stats/birthdays -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list