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Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 10:10:10 +1000
From: Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>
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On 02Jul2013 19:46, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
| In article <mailman.4125.1372798337.3114.python-list@python.org>,
|  Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> wrote:
| 
| > If you find a bug in Python, don't send it to comp.lang.python; file 
| > a bug report in the issue tracker.
| 
| I'm not sure I agree with that one, at least not fully.  It's certainly 
| true that you shouldn't expect anybody to do anything about a bug unless 
| you open an issue.
| 
| On the other hand, I often find it useful to discuss things that I 
| believe are bugs on c.l.p first.  Sometimes people will explain to me 
| that I'm just doing it wrong.  Sometimes the discussion will end up 
| with, "Yeah, that's a bug".  In either case, it serves as a good initial 
| filter for whether I should file a bug or not, and the discussion is 
| often educational.

+1

I've certinly been educated that way.
-- 
Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>

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