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On 02/06/2014 18:53, Ian Kelly wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Steven D'Aprano
> <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
>> On Mon, 02 Jun 2014 09:01:01 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote:
>>
>>> On Jun 1, 2014 12:11 PM, <wxjmfauth@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> At least Py2 does not crash when using non ascii (eg sticking with
>>>> cp1252).
>>>>
>>>> I just noticed this last week, Thursday, when presenting the absurdity
>>>> of the Flexible String Representation.
>>>
>>> So have you reported this alleged crash bug to the bug tracker? If not,
>>> then you're not contributing to Python or the discussion here in any
>>> useful way; you're just trolling.
>>
>>
>> There's a corollary to Poe's Law that says that a sufficiently advanced
>> troll is indistinguishable from a crank. Whichever JMF is, please don't
>> feed him attention.
>
> While his description of the bug is so vague that I'm not inclined to
> believe that it actually exists, if it's real then he should be
> encouraged to report it.  This is the last time, though.  If he
> continues to complain about bugs without reporting or otherwise
> identifying them, I'll just ignore it.
>

It's a pleasant change having him complain about bugs, as opposed to 
simply complain about nonexistent problems.


-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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