Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Larry Martell Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: [Off-topic] Requests author discusses MentalHealthError exception Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 11:21:59 -0500 Lines: 12 Message-ID: References: <56d16e6a$0$1593$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de CQNlN+Psb6OqiE7QKJmcaAHbGkE20ox3Au913FbQTMmg== Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.019 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.96; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:: [': 0.03; 'exception.': 0.07; 'before.': 0.09; 'python': 0.10; 'read.': 0.13; '2016': 0.16; 'discusses': 0.16; 'received:io': 0.16; 'received:psf.io': 0.16; 'sad': 0.16; 'subject:exception': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; 'subject:] ': 0.19; 'to:name:python- list@python.org': 0.20; 'am,': 0.23; 'feb': 0.23; 'sat,': 0.23; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.24; 'message-id:@mail.gmail.com': 0.27; 'sure,': 0.29; 'connection': 0.30; "d'aprano": 0.33; 'steven': 0.33; 'received:google.com': 0.35; 'quite': 0.35; 'but': 0.36; 'needed': 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'received:209.85': 0.36; 'to:addr :python-list': 0.36; 'turn': 0.37; 'received:209.85.213': 0.37; 'received:209': 0.38; 'subject:-': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'some': 0.40; 'him': 0.60; 'back': 0.62; 'him,': 0.67; 'drug': 0.72; 'subject:skip:M 10': 0.72; 'subject:author': 0.84; 'fascinating': 0.91; 'story.': 0.96 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=PVsfB3pl8QhGnPr6m8F0/k72oh1mqz/Ejij6+za1k9s=; b=SHTGcvYhkNAm7lLnzX3z1t6Z5XudM39ATNiGuKa4WNSqSxbXaDpPt8FcBepopJOwOb l0z9OgXTGJNUujW9NHpWg3TlQKQbvdWd++Cxz3pMn3Td+4vrGBroM6avC7VO/33c1S5I ntxgiBjT7kin4pChJBxecAfKOdyftdI9Jw/kb/vvYYWzvsCxjrbW8xgyRdYJfaRfwsMk ExTaPwdHx20hGso+uBgLJkGIHm2J03u4bUu95Hxg+pC3iFgrohtiTAC1a2gsrY8xVdgE e1S0d3JOBxXJia238mrQ4jOWSSHTBaRA2S5WnHPOwE1i7f3LA8AqzsIv5CraiGWmza9d 0diw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=PVsfB3pl8QhGnPr6m8F0/k72oh1mqz/Ejij6+za1k9s=; b=ioJcrcWtZVN63VyqyYXulamt1W63k7lb3Q777Bxsh61nj+iVxolvlnAOLVjt2PLgmB Sjie9oRr3J8EZSKQ3gdbuyW7z0FODKAdmhOv4/2o1K1rgzZvwo9FWY9RXw67hUPIRCNC B+44+SiFFCRXqdOGWzOaCR4ZUQcCzqKeTnBaVNlk3t5geXvthjKQxXDz9/ie5I1HD72j SUHKNzIZaxUfc1di+xAXYmCqBFpjzutRLz6FyFRxoBIc660m1iE0aOS9c4SjuX0ccnvX vSbq7iNpKRBDW/4CJLghpphOfyt6TKIWbGt41V+15ti/5QCS50PKLwGhamBphEjJq0bL C7cg== X-Gm-Message-State: AD7BkJIj9LB/eC9U9vHR7QAu8ELK1s4eqHnbY4Qq2PF7tejvgFz9GNzBVgqSor6mxKiRhJRBiz7lSiHoE7K9XQ== X-Received: by 10.50.43.133 with SMTP id w5mr10789096igl.47.1456762959259; Mon, 29 Feb 2016 08:22:39 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <56d16e6a$0$1593$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:103730 On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 4:37 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > The author of Requests, Kenneth Reitz, discusses his recent recovery from a > MentalHealthError exception. > > http://www.kennethreitz.org/essays/mentalhealtherror-an-exception-occurred > > Although the connection to Python is only quite slim, I found it fascinating > to read. I found this to be a very sad story. Sure, he had some issues, but I don't think they needed to drug him, and take all that he had learned away from him and turn him back into what he was before.