Re: Is c.l.py becoming less friendly?

2009-02-07 Thread James Stroud
Tim Chase wrote: Is this where we tell you to shut up? gdr ;-) Don't you mean STFU? -- James Stroud UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los Angeles, CA 90095 http://www.jamesstroud.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Is c.l.py becoming less friendly?

2009-02-07 Thread floatingpeanut
On Feb 7, 2:37 am, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote:   So I think python-list has become more friendly since. I've experienced the same sort of thing. About a year ago (I think) there were one or more regulars here who were often somewhat rude, unfriendly, or snobbish (not naming any names).

Re: Is c.l.py becoming less friendly?

2009-02-06 Thread Mark Dickinson
On Feb 6, 6:23 am, Hendrik van Rooyen m...@microcorp.co.za wrote: I think this thread has buggered up a perfectly ^^^ Such language. I'm appalled. Mark -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Is c.l.py becoming less friendly?

2009-02-06 Thread Richard Levasseur
On Feb 5, 8:02 am, Dan Upton up...@virginia.edu wrote: On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:00 AM, mk mrk...@gmail.com wrote: (duck) 542 comp.lang.python rtfm 467 comp.lang.python shut+up 263 comp.lang.perl rtfm 45 comp.lang.perl shut+up But over how many messages for each group?  Wouldn't

Re: Is c.l.py becoming less friendly?

2009-02-06 Thread Albert Hopkins
Probably that [c.l.]python is becoming more popular and, like most things as they become popular, it loses its purity... much like the Internet in the early 1990s. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Is c.l.py becoming less friendly?

2009-02-06 Thread Terry Reedy
Albert Hopkins wrote: Probably that [c.l.]python is becoming more popular and, like most things as they become popular, it loses its purity... much like the Internet in the early 1990s. Several years ago when I proposed the addition of list.pop(), a couple of people accused me of trying to

Is c.l.py becoming less friendly?

2009-02-05 Thread mk
(duck) 542 comp.lang.python rtfm 467 comp.lang.python shut+up 263 comp.lang.perl rtfm 45 comp.lang.perl shut+up Code: import urllib2 import re import time def fillurlfmt(args): urlfmt, ggroup, gkw = args return {'group':ggroup, 'keyword':gkw, 'url': urlfmt % (gkw, ggroup)} def

Re: Is c.l.py becoming less friendly?

2009-02-05 Thread Dan Upton
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:00 AM, mk mrk...@gmail.com wrote: (duck) 542 comp.lang.python rtfm 467 comp.lang.python shut+up 263 comp.lang.perl rtfm 45 comp.lang.perl shut+up But over how many messages for each group? Wouldn't the percentage of messages containing those be more

Re: Is c.l.py becoming less friendly?

2009-02-05 Thread Tim Rowe
2009/2/5 mk mrk...@gmail.com: (duck) 542 comp.lang.python rtfm 467 comp.lang.python shut+up 263 comp.lang.perl rtfm 45 comp.lang.perl shut+up Yes, but is there any real traffic on comp.lang.perl nowadays? Sorry, cheap shot ;-) -- Tim Rowe --

Re: Is c.l.py becoming less friendly?

2009-02-05 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
mk schrieb: (duck) 542 comp.lang.python rtfm 467 comp.lang.python shut+up 263 comp.lang.perl rtfm 45 comp.lang.perl shut+up It appears to me that comp.lang.perl isn't even active anymore. Or googles interface is just crappy. c.l.perl.misc seems to be the place to search. And raw

Re: Is c.l.py becoming less friendly?

2009-02-05 Thread Tim Chase
(duck) 542 comp.lang.python rtfm 467 comp.lang.python shut+up 263 comp.lang.perl rtfm 45 comp.lang.perl shut+up Is this where we tell you to shut up? gdr ;-) As others mentioned, the raw numbers don't mean much without a total-volume-of-posts to demonstrate the percentage. It would also be

Re: Is c.l.py becoming less friendly?

2009-02-05 Thread Tim Rowe
2009/2/5 Tim Chase python.l...@tim.thechases.com: Is this where we tell you to shut up? gdr ;-) [snip] It would also be interesting to see how many of those posts are concentrated in certain threads And, as you have clearly demonstrated, how many of those posts also contain a smiley or some

Re: Is c.l.py becoming less friendly?

2009-02-05 Thread Dan Upton
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Tim Rowe digi...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/2/5 Tim Chase python.l...@tim.thechases.com: Is this where we tell you to shut up? gdr ;-) [snip] It would also be interesting to see how many of those posts are concentrated in certain threads And, as you have

Re: Is c.l.py becoming less friendly?

2009-02-05 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Tim Rowe a écrit : 2009/2/5 Tim Chase python.l...@tim.thechases.com: Is this where we tell you to shut up? gdr ;-) [snip] It would also be interesting to see how many of those posts are concentrated in certain threads And, as you have clearly demonstrated, how many of those posts also

Re: Is c.l.py becoming less friendly?

2009-02-05 Thread Terry Reedy
mk wrote: (duck) 542 comp.lang.python rtfm What is so unfriendly about 'read the fine manual'? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Is c.l.py becoming less friendly?

2009-02-05 Thread Mensanator
On Feb 5, 4:20 pm, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote: mk wrote: (duck) 542 comp.lang.python rtfm What is so unfriendly about 'read the fine manual'? You've seen a fine manual? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Is c.l.py becoming less friendly?

2009-02-05 Thread Steve Holden
Mensanator wrote: On Feb 5, 4:20 pm, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote: mk wrote: (duck) 542 comp.lang.python rtfm What is so unfriendly about 'read the fine manual'? You've seen a fine manual? Yes, and I'm fine well sure this is somewhere between a silly thread and a troll. regards

Re: Is c.l.py becoming less friendly?

2009-02-05 Thread Terry Reedy
Mensanator wrote: On Feb 5, 4:20 pm, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote: mk wrote: (duck) 542 comp.lang.python rtfm What is so unfriendly about 'read the fine manual'? You've seen a fine manual? Yes, and I and others have spent hours and hours making the Python manuals finer. --

Re: Is c.l.py becoming less friendly?

2009-02-05 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
Mensanator m@aol.com On Feb 5, 4:20 pm, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote: mk wrote: (duck) 542 comp.lang.python rtfm What is so unfriendly about 'read the fine manual'? You've seen a fine manual? Oh Fine! - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Is c.l.py becoming less friendly?

2009-02-05 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
Steve Holden st...@h...eb.com wrote: Yes, and I'm fine well sure this is somewhere between a silly thread and a troll. Fine reads wrong - it should be fining. Silly? Us here on clp, silly? What a monstrous thought! I'll have you know this is a respectable establishment, and you should be