Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Mark H Harris Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: First attempt at a Python prog (Chess) Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 10:15:16 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <2013021323250974803-chrishinsley@gmailcom> <201404301428587277-chrishinsley@gmailcom> NNTP-Posting-Host: eSF12mcVRIwL+eMIMJ03mA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:70782 On 4/30/14 8:28 AM, Chris Hinsley wrote: > On 2013-02-15 05:05:27 +0000, Rick Johnson said: >> >> First of all your naming conventions suck. You've used the "interface" >> style for every function in this game so i can't /easily/ eyeball >> parse the /real/ interface functions from the helper functions -- and >> i'm not going to even try, because i don't read ugly code! Try to >> learn the Python style guide as soon as you can (In particular pay >> attention to naming conventions): > Wow, such vitriol for such a simple bear to cope with ! > > Maybe Papa bear would like to try some humility ! > > This was my very first Python prog, and my first chess prog and my > attempt to learn somthing about Generators ! Do youtself a favour and > leave the Python comunity for the good of the language ! > > Chris > Chris, you might want to try another list: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor The folks on this list are friendly, but tough. They are not generally arrogant, but many of them are experts (or core python developers) and most of them are worth listening to. The list mentioned above is for folks who are learning python and who have basic questions or want basic clarifications. (they are gentler too) :) marcus