How to answer questions from newbies

We get a lot of newbie questions on this list. People are eager to jump in and answer them (which is wonderful), but sometimes we get off on tangents about trivia and lose sight of the real question, and our audience. The particular one that set me off just now (I'm leaving off the names

Re: How to answer questions from newbies

On Sunday, February 16, 2014 8:53:47 PM UTC+5:30, Roy Smith wrote: We get a lot of newbie questions on this list. People are eager to jump in and answer them (which is wonderful), but sometimes we get off on tangents about trivia and lose sight of the real question, and our audience. The

Re: How to answer questions from newbies

In article c2078ca1-c85a-4795-8632-6b005436c...@googlegroups.com, Rustom Mody rustompm...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, February 16, 2014 8:53:47 PM UTC+5:30, Roy Smith wrote: We get a lot of newbie questions on this list. People are eager to jump in and answer them (which is wonderful),

Re: How to answer questions from newbies

On Sunday, February 16, 2014 9:44:00 PM UTC+5:30, Roy Smith wrote: Moi? See thats the problem with re's -- just 3 letters and completely incomprehensible! It even resembles our resident unicode-troll Oui? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to answer questions from newbies

Rustom Mody rustompm...@gmail.com writes: On Sunday, February 16, 2014 9:44:00 PM UTC+5:30, Roy Smith wrote: Moi? See thats the problem with re's -- just 3 letters and completely incomprehensible! Actually, that's a regexp pattern that matches two *or* three letters. -- \ “If

Re: How to answer questions from newbies

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Rustom Mody rustompm...@gmail.com writes: On Sunday, February 16, 2014 9:44:00 PM UTC+5:30, Roy Smith wrote: Moi? See thats the problem with re's -- just 3 letters and completely incomprehensible! Actually,