Re: How to answer questions from newbies

2014-02-16 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > Rustom Mody 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 matche

Re: How to answer questions from newbies

2014-02-16 Thread Ben Finney
Rustom Mody 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 nature has made an

Re: How to answer questions from newbies

2014-02-16 Thread Rustom Mody
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

2014-02-16 Thread Roy Smith
In article , Rustom Mody 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), but sometimes we get off on > > tangents about trivia and lose sight of

Re: How to answer questions from newbies

2014-02-16 Thread Rustom Mody
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. >