Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!newsfeed.freenet.ag!news2.euro.net!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 0.029 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.95; '*S*': 0.01; 'subject:Error': 0.07; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'sep': 0.09; 'subject:Help': 0.10; 'cryptic': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'subject:Broken': 0.16; 'variable': 0.20; "haven't": 0.23; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.28; 'optional': 0.29; 'basic': 0.30; 'url:home': 0.33; 'to:addr :python-list': 0.33; 'received:org': 0.36; 'subject:Please': 0.36; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'header:Received:5': 0.40; 'your': 0.60; 'more': 0.63; 'subject: . ': 0.84; '1972': 0.91; 'dennis': 0.91; 'received:108': 0.91; 'subject:!!': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Dennis Lee Bieber Subject: Re: Error 32 - Broken Pipe . Please Help!! Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 01:33:03 -0400 Organization: > Bestiaria Support Staff < References: <98256fa5-e921-41a7-ae93-82a432c99056@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-108-79-223-184.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: 19 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1346823191 news.xs4all.nl 6856 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:53601 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:28452 On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 20:40:57 -0700 (PDT), Ramchandra Apte declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > > *Please* make your variable names more descriptive. No kidding... I haven't seen such cryptic names since 1972 -- an era when BASIC only allowed for A..Z{"" | 1..0}{"" | $} {that is, one letter, with optional single digit, with optional $ for string} -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/