Re: Newcomer Help

2014-02-14 Thread David Robinow
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Larry Martell larry.mart...@gmail.com wrote: 18) If you're on AOL, don't worry about anything I've said here. You're already a fucking laughing stock, and there's no hope for you. Ah, the email bigots. That's why I keep an AOL address around for occasional use

Re: Newcomer Help

2014-02-13 Thread Walter Hughey
- Original Message - From: Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com Cc: Python-List python-list@python.org Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 3:22:57 PM Subject: Re: Newcomer Help On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 8:07 AM, Tim Delaney timothy.c.dela...@gmail.com wrote: On 13 February 2014 02:17

Re: Newcomer Help

2014-02-13 Thread Rustom Mody
On Thursday, February 13, 2014 8:52:51 PM UTC+5:30, Walter Hughey wrote: I am addressing this to the entire site - I thinks. And this will be my final answer on this subject. It remains to be seen if I remain on this site or tell all good bye. For the most part, the few people who

Re: Newcomer Help

2014-02-13 Thread Larry Martell
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Rustom Mody rustompm...@gmail.com wrote: This is Usenet. You'll learn much here and you'll find a bunch of rude people. No you are not going to crash your plane but you will likely crash your python-learning attempts if you give an occasional asshole more

Re: Newcomer Help

2014-02-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2014-02-13, Larry Martell larry.mart...@gmail.com wrote: 9) Don't ever use the term cyberspace (only William Gibson gets to say that, and even he hasn't really used it for two or three books now). Likewise, you prove yourself a marketing-hype victim if you ever use the term surfing. 9b)

Re: Newcomer Help

2014-02-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2014-02-12, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: In other contexts eg corporates, often the culture is the opposite: top-posting with strictly NO trimming. I've never found a corporation that objects to the sensible conversation-style, minimal-quotes-for-context interleaved

Re: Newcomer Help

2014-02-12 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 2:17 AM, Grant Edwards invalid@invalid.invalid wrote: On 2014-02-12, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: In other contexts eg corporates, often the culture is the opposite: top-posting with strictly NO trimming. I've never found a corporation that objects to

Re: Newcomer Help

2014-02-12 Thread Tim Delaney
On 13 February 2014 02:17, Grant Edwards invalid@invalid.invalid wrote: On 2014-02-12, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: In other contexts eg corporates, often the culture is the opposite: top-posting with strictly NO trimming. I've never found a corporation that objects to

Re: Newcomer Help

2014-02-12 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 8:07 AM, Tim Delaney timothy.c.dela...@gmail.com wrote: On 13 February 2014 02:17, Grant Edwards invalid@invalid.invalid wrote: I've always worked in corporations where the email culture is the Microsoft-induced lazy and stupid style as you describe. And yet when I

Re: Newcomer Help

2014-02-11 Thread Walter Hughey
- From: Gisle Vanem gva...@yahoo.no To: Walter Hughey wkhug...@gmail.com Cc: python-list@python.org Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 4:13:44 PM Subject: Re: Newcomer Help Walter Hughey wkhug...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you for your reply. One quick question, when I reply should it be replay

Re: Newcomer Help

2014-02-11 Thread Rustom Mody
On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 10:19:53 PM UTC+5:30, Walter Hughey wrote: This newcomer apologizes forĀ -- this crap came from you -. Firstly, on the behalf of the list, Apologies for uncalled for and unhelpful rudeness I suppose what you mean by top posting is replying to an email

Re: Newcomer Help

2014-02-11 Thread Ben Finney
Rustom Mody rustompm...@gmail.com writes: On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 10:19:53 PM UTC+5:30, Walter Hughey wrote: I suppose what you mean by top posting is replying to an email by entering a reply at the top That's right. Top-posting is wasteful of the reader's time while it also omits a

Re: Newcomer Help

2014-02-10 Thread Rustom Mody
On Monday, February 10, 2014 9:40:22 PM UTC+5:30, Walter Hughey wrote: I am new to Python programming, actually new to any programming language. I sent the email below to the python...@python.org a few days ago. So far I have not seen a reply, actually, I have not seen anything from pythonmac

Re: Newcomer Help

2014-02-10 Thread Walter Hughey
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 11:07:14 AM Subject: Re: Newcomer Help On Monday, February 10, 2014 9:40:22 PM UTC+5:30, Walter Hughey wrote: I am new to Python programming, actually new to any programming language. I sent the email below to the python...@python.org a few days ago. So far I

Re: Newcomer Help

2014-02-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2014-02-10, Walter Hughey wkhug...@gmail.com wrote: Apple does install a version of Python, normally a somewhat older version. My computer has 2.5 and 2.6 installed and I have opened it and inserted code that works. I do need a way to write the code, test it, and then save a copy to turn

Re: Newcomer Help

2014-02-10 Thread Gisle Vanem
Mody rustompm...@gmail.com To: python-list@python.org Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 11:07:14 AM Subject: Re: Newcomer Help On Monday, February 10, 2014 9:40:22 PM UTC+5:30, Walter Hughey wrote: I am new to Python programming, actually new to any programming language. I sent the email below

Re: Newcomer Help

2014-02-10 Thread William Ray Wing
On Feb 10, 2014, at 11:10 AM, Walter Hughey wkhug...@gmail.com wrote: I am new to Python programming, actually new to any programming language. I sent the email below to the pythonmac-...@python.org a few days ago. So far I have not seen a reply, actually, I have not seen anything from