On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 01:22:54 am David Hutto wrote: > I'm new, I touched the Holy lib, and > didn't check to reset the original Tkinter directory before posting. > Won't happen again.
I'm sorry we got off on the wrong foot, you caught me at a time when I was frustrated about other things, and after spending 30 minutes wasting my time trying to reproduce the errors you were getting, I snapped at you. It's nothing about the library being "Holy", that's an asinine thing to say. It's a software package, not a piece of the One True Cross. But you wouldn't randomly plug and unplug parts in your car engine, and then complain that "Perhaps I've misunderstood something, but it seems to me that the Ford Fiesta doesn't have a working internal combustion engine." You've got the right idea about learning by experimentation, but there's a right way and a wrong way to do it, and the way you've chosen is actively harmful to *you*, as well as wasting the time of those who volunteer to give help. How many hours did you waste because you thought that Python's implementation of inheritance was buggy, due to changes you introduced? Even if it were only *one minute*, it would be too long because it is completely, 100% unnecessary. Keep the standard library as it is supplied. If you want to modify a module to see what happens, make a copy of it and put it in your home directory with another name, and make the changes there. I applaud the fact that you are actively trying to solve problems before asking for help. I'm not being sarcastic or condescending when I say this is fantastic. But I am saying that your practice of *how* you try to solve problems yourself is actually counterproductive, making a rod for your own back, by introducing bugs into code that wasn't buggy in the first place. Learning to code is hard enough when you can trust the library to be (mostly) bug free, don't make it any harder! -- Steven D'Aprano _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
