Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder.news-service.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed5.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.017 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.97; '*S*': 0.00; 'adjusting': 0.09; 'matt': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229.12': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'received:lo.gmane.org': 0.09; 'archives.': 0.16; 'imho,': 0.16; 'two.': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; 'subject:skip:s 10': 0.18; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.22; 'wonder': 0.23; 'pm,': 0.24; 'saying': 0.26; "i'm": 0.27; 'handled': 0.28; 'stefan': 0.29; '(and': 0.29; 'asking': 0.29; 'seem': 0.31; 'generally': 0.32; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.33; "i've": 0.34; 'done': 0.34; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.34; 'curious': 0.34; 'pretty': 0.35; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.35; 'question': 0.36; 'but': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.38; 'question,': 0.38; 'subject:: ': 0.39; 'feed': 0.39; 'header:Mime-Version:1': 0.39; 'why': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'might': 0.40; "it's": 0.40; 'kind': 0.61; 'results': 0.61; 'tag': 0.64; 'opened': 0.64; 'here': 0.65; 'engine': 0.71; 'interest:': 0.84; 'url:]': 0.84 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: memilanuk Subject: Re: stackoverflow and c.l.py Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 05:33:54 -0700 References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.172.107.27 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.21) Gecko/20110831 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.13 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 24 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1316003656 news.xs4all.nl 2414 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:34949 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:13269 On 09/13/2011 09:12 PM, Stefan Behnel wrote: > Matt Joiner, 14.09.2011 04:23: >> i'm curious as to what can be done with (and handled better) by >> adjusting sys.setswitchinterval >> i've opened a question on SO for this, that people might find of >> interest: http://stackoverflow.com[...] > > I wonder why people ask this kind of question on stackoverflow, and then > come here asking people to go over there, read the question, and > (potentially) provide an answer. > > IMHO, c.l.py is a much better place to ask Python(-related) questions > than stackoverflow. It's also a much better place to search for an > answer that is already available in the archives. > > Stefan > Just an opinion from the unwashed masses... but I don't see the p0rn spam over on SO that I do on c.l.py, for one. I also seem to generally get better results from the search engine there, for two. Not saying one is necessarily better than the other, but just subscribing to the feed for the [python] tag on SO has a pretty good SNR...