On Aug 8, 3:27 pm, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Kee Nethery wrote: > > As someone trying to learn the language I want to say that the tone on > > this list towards people who are trying to learn Python feels like it > > has become anti-newbies. > > [snip] > > > Kee Nethery > > My gut feeling (which could of course be wrong) is that many hard core > Pythonistas are cheesed off with newbies who refuse to help themselves.
The funny thing is that their response is to shutdown changes that are intended to *help* newbies help themselves. It seems self-defeating to me. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list