On 09Jun2018 02:37, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:
On Saturday 09 June 2018 01:36:17 Tamara Berger wrote:
Re inline style: When I hit reply, this is the window I get.

The python-list server strips attachments, so I didn't get the screenshot you may have attached. However...

I don't
get my previous email with the carets appended to the beginning of the
line.

I've just gone to my GMail and tried a reply. In my reply compose window there is a little button at the bottom left with three dots in it, thus: "[...]", kind of. Click that, it expands to the prior quoted text. Then you can trim it and insert your responses.

Before I look at the rest of your email, I'd like for you to explain
how there is a mymodule folder nested within another mymodule folder.
I don't see this second folder in Finder, and I definitely didn't
create it.

Finder, if thats what you are using, I am not familiar with it, is
probably showing you that which it has cached, before that folder was
created.  Back out one layer and go back in so it actually reads a fresh
copy of that directory(folder).

The Finder uses MacOS' equivalent of Linux' inotify: its folder views are "live" and update as soon as anything changes.

Tamara, there are things the Finder won't show, particularly "hidden" files, which is an attribute you can assign to folders. Maybe that is what happened. I've got no concrete explaination, and I can't inspect your machine directly. Also, how sure are you that the "mymodules" in the Finder is the upper one and not the lower one? Just guessing here.

My opinion is that you did create it, but not realised how that happened.

All you'd need to do is something like this:

 cd Desktop
 mkdir mymodules
 cd mymodules
 ... get distracted, do something else, come back much later ...
 mkdir mymodules
 cd mymodules
 ... proceed to make the setup.py and so forth ...

i.e. just do it twice. Alternatively, and this is a common one, you got a template archive, such as a zip file, containing an "empty" module to get you started. And did something like this:

 cd Desktop
 mkdir mymodules
 cd mymodules
 unzip the-empty-module-template.zip

If the zip file itself also contained a top level "mymodules" folder in it, it will have made the second "mymodules" inside the one you made.

Most archive files are set up to have their entire contents inside a single top folder, so this scenario isn't all that unlikely.

A third possibility is that you made a mymodules somewhere else (such as in your top level home directory), and later decided to put it on your Desktop to make it easy to find/access. So you might have decided to "mv" your "mymodules" folder into the Desktop like this:

 mv mymodules Desktop/mymodules

which is fine. But mv has some interesting behaviour. If "mymodules" didn't exist in Desktop, then youre "mymodules" will get moved into the Desktop. However, if mv's final argument is an _existing_ directory, mv puts things inside it. So if you went:

 mkdir Desktop/mymodules
 mv mymodules Desktop/mymodules

then mv would put your top level "mymodules" _inside_ the "Desktop/mymodules" folder that already exists, producing the structure you currently have.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au>
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