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RE: Python #ifdef

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Subject RE: Python #ifdef
Date Tue, 28 May 2013 23:54:46 +0300
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> From: invalid@invalid.invalid
> Subject: Re: Python #ifdef
> Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 20:42:34 +0000
> To: python-list@python.org
[...]
> Here's the important lesson from this thread:
>
> Instead of asking "how do I write X in Python" where yoy've assumed X
> is the solution to your problem, you're usually better off asking how
> to solve the underlying problem in a Pythonic way.
>
> IOW, instead of asking about a Python preprocessor (which you have
> assumed is the solution to the problem because that's how you would do
> it in C), ask about the actual problem (how to define a function
> differently depending on Python version).
>
> People on this list are very inventive and will expend a surprising
> amount of time to figure out often too-clever ways to do X because you
> asked how to do X -- even if doing X is a lousy way to solve your
> actual problem...
>
> When asking how do I solve a problem, it's OK to illustrate that
> question with an example X of how you would solve it in C or Java or
> Ruby or Perl or whatever, but remember
>
> 1) Not everybody here knows C or Java or Ruby or Perl or whatever,
> and the person who _does_ know everyting there is to know about
> solving some particular underlying problem isn't going to go
> learn a new language so that they can understand your example and
> figure out what you're trying to accomplish.
>
> 2) Programming languages differ. X may be the best way to solve the
> problem in one language, but it might be an awful way to do it in
> another language.
>
> --
> Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I'm ANN LANDERS!!
> at I can SHOPLIFT!!
> gmail.com


You're right! Sometimes I hate myself for doing exactly the opposite of what I would like to do!

Unfortunately I can't change the thread subject.

How do you have "invalid@invalid.invalid" instead of your email address?

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Re: Python #ifdef Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-05-28 15:49 -0400
  Re: Python #ifdef Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-05-28 20:00 +0000
    RE: Python #ifdef Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> - 2013-05-28 23:07 +0300
      Re: Python #ifdef Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-05-28 20:12 +0000
        RE: Python #ifdef Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> - 2013-05-28 23:22 +0300
          Re: Python #ifdef Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-05-28 20:42 +0000
            RE: Python #ifdef Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> - 2013-05-28 23:54 +0300
              Re: Python #ifdef Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-05-29 14:45 +0000
        RE: Python #ifdef Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-05-28 21:34 +0100
        RE: Python #ifdef Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> - 2013-05-28 23:48 +0300
        RE: Python #ifdef Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-05-28 23:51 +0100
    RE: Python #ifdef Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kaplan@case.edu> - 2013-05-28 13:14 -0700

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