Re: Python Doc Problem Example: os.path.split

2005-09-20 Thread Steve Holden
Peter Hansen wrote: > Diez B. Roggisch wrote: [...] >>But I stand by the nano-tube-narrow mind-set of Xah Lee. Besides his >>tourette syndrome he also is simply unwilling to read documentation if >>it is not what _he_ expects it to be. > > > It's interesting to note that c.l.p still manages to gi

Re: Python Doc Problem Example: os.path.split

2005-09-20 Thread Peter Hansen
Diez B. Roggisch wrote: >>I think this is unfair. The use of "slash" is a failing of the current >>documentation. If his use is an indication of a nano-tube-narrow >>mindset then so would be the use by the actual documentation writers. > > You're right - I missed that somehow, as the original docs

Re: Python Doc Problem Example: os.path.split

2005-09-20 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> I think this is unfair. The use of "slash" is a failing of the current > documentation. If his use is an indication of a nano-tube-narrow > mindset then so would be the use by the actual documentation writers. You're right - I missed that somehow, as the original docs talk about components - w

Re: Python Doc Problem Example: os.path.split

2005-09-20 Thread Antoon Pardon
Op 2005-09-19, Diez B. Roggisch schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> split(path) >> returns a pair (dirname,filename), where dirname is the part of path >> up to the last slash, and filename is the rest of the string after the >> last slash. > > Bullshit. Slash isn't always the path component d

Re: Python Doc Problem Example: os.path.split

2005-09-19 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> > split(path) > returns a pair (dirname,filename), where dirname is the part of path > up to the last slash, and filename is the rest of the string after the > last slash. Bullshit. Slash isn't always the path component delimiter. Get a clue on what you're talking about before suggesting

Re: Python Doc Problem Example: os.path.split

2005-09-19 Thread Xah Lee
Addendum: I was working on a program where i needed to split a path into dirname, corename, and suffix. I came to this page and took me a while to understand what split() is about. There are other path related functions splitext(), splitdrive(), basename(), dirname(). User has to scan the whole p

Re: Python Doc Problem Example: os.path.split

2005-09-18 Thread George Sakkis
Another epileptic seizure on the keyboard. Apart from clue deficit disorder, this guy seems to suffer from some serious anger management problems...*plonk* "Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Python Doc Problem Example > > Quote from: > http://docs.python.org/lib/module-os.path.html >

Re: Python Doc Problem Example: os.path.split

2005-09-18 Thread Julian Fondren
> Please don't feed the trolls. > In other words, if everybody ignores this loser, he might crawl back under > the rock he came from. Well, comp.lang.python people would do better to accept the suggested rewrite and ignore at the rest at their discretion. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listi

Re: Python Doc Problem Example: os.path.split

2005-09-18 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Laszlo Zsolt Nagy a écrit : > >> is the doc writer, trying to write the doc with some austereness, but >> is confused about the behavior of split, or confused about expressing >> it? Did his pretension fucked him up? >> >> > Dear Xah Lee, > > The Python community is very sorry because we have a

Re: Python Doc Problem Example: os.path.split

2005-09-18 Thread Matija Papec
X-Ftn-To: Xah Lee "Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Python Doc Problem Example what makes you sure that this problem would be interesting for groups beside c.l.python? are you begging to be converted to a true religion? :-) -- Matija -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Doc Problem Example: os.path.split

2005-09-18 Thread Laszlo Zsolt Nagy
>is the doc writer, trying to write the doc with some austereness, but >is confused about the behavior of split, or confused about expressing >it? Did his pretension fucked him up? > > Dear Xah Lee, The Python community is very sorry because we have a very bad documentation. You are right. Th

Re: Python Doc Problem Example: os.path.split

2005-09-18 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 03:46:03 -0700, Xah Lee wibbled: > Can anyone tell me what this verbiage is trying to fucking say? Please don't feed the trolls. In other words, if everybody ignores this loser, he might crawl back under the rock he came from. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/

Python Doc Problem Example: os.path.split

2005-09-18 Thread Xah Lee
Python Doc Problem Example Quote from: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-os.path.html -- split( path) Split the pathname path into a pair, (head, tail) where tail is the last pathname component and head is everything leading up to that. The tail part will never contain a slash