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Subject: Re: IDLE has suddenly become FAWLTY - so should I be hitting it with a big stick, or what?
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 00:03:10 -0400
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On 8/26/2014 9:11 PM, Twirlip2 wrote:
> On Wednesday, 27 August 2014 01:51:20 UTC+1, Terry Reedy  wrote:
>> On 8/26/2014 7:29 PM, Twirlip2 wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 27 August 2014 00:20:56 UTC+1, Mark Lawrence  wrote:
>>>> Another lesson is that google grops is crap [...]
>>> You read my mind! (See parenthetical note at end of my most recent post.)
>> You can access python-list (and a few thousand other tech lists as an
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>> that this is what I (and many others) do.
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> That sounds good, and I'd like to try it (tomorrow!), but:
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