Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!rt.uk.eu.org!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!news.nosignal.org!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!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 0.046 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.91; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:help': 0.07; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'dec': 0.15; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'wed,': 0.16; 'insert': 0.23; 'least': 0.25; 'header:X-Complaints- To:1': 0.28; 'lines': 0.28; 'occurred': 0.29; 'url:home': 0.33; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.33; 'agree': 0.34; 'received:org': 0.36; 'subject:Please': 0.36; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'delete': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'little': 0.39; 'header:Received:5': 0.40; 'postal': 0.65; 'saw': 0.75; 'old,': 0.83; 'url:pg': 0.84; 'subject:you': 0.88; 'dennis': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Dennis Lee Bieber Subject: Re: Please help if you can! Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 21:45:43 -0500 Organization: > Bestiaria Support Staff < References: <7333128a-6866-4e3c-8436-d5b2397beadc@googlegroups.com> <50DBA1A5.1010003@lightbird.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-76-253-107-235.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.3/32.846 X-No-Archive: YES X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 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: 16 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1356576350 news.xs4all.nl 6926 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:41321 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:35567 On Wed, 26 Dec 2012 20:17:25 -0500, Mitya Sirenef declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > I have to agree - I saw that howto as well and it occurred to me > that if we have to delete blank lines manually we might > as well use postal pigeons with tiny little papyrus scrolls - > at least those don't insert blank lines automatically! > http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2245&dat=19820618&id=2RYzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XTIHAAAAIBAJ&pg=5615,6417579 A few decades old, but... -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/