Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!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 0.003 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'responding': 0.07; 'subject: + ': 0.07; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'assume': 0.14; 'creates': 0.14; 'question.': 0.14; 'thread': 0.14; '*you*': 0.16; 'better?': 0.16; 'elsewhere.': 0.16; 'op.': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'respond.': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'code.': 0.18; 'bit': 0.19; 'thu,': 0.19; 'saying': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'error': 0.23; 'instead.': 0.24; 'received:comcast.net': 0.24; 'posts': 0.26; 'post': 0.26; 'asking': 0.27; 'header:X-Complaints- To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'correct': 0.29; 'chris': 0.29; 'dec': 0.30; 'kevin': 0.30; 'subject:list': 0.30; 'code': 0.31; 'getting': 0.31; '"please': 0.31; 'responded': 0.31; 'talked': 0.31; 'this.': 0.32; 'maybe': 0.34; 'could': 0.34; 'problem': 0.35; 'case,': 0.35; 'done.': 0.35; 'good.': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'google': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; "didn't": 0.36; 'should': 0.36; 'depends': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'pm,': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'how': 0.40; 'even': 0.60; '26,': 0.68; 'helping': 0.70; 'subject:this': 0.83; 'batchelder': 0.84; 'clearer': 0.84; 'filtered': 0.84; '2013': 0.98 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Ned Batchelder Subject: Re: Google Groups + this list Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 08:20:29 -0500 References: <5a15bd65-8183-48be-8ac2-be0666fed75d@googlegroups.com> <049fb77d-e9ac-4cb3-9db9-d07f01340dbc@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-50-133-228-126.hsd1.ma.comcast.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 In-Reply-To: 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: 33 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1388064044 news.xs4all.nl 2922 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:43306 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:62739 On 12/25/13 11:17 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Ned Batchelder wrote: >> Kevin started this thread by asking a question. Chris responded without >> helping the OP, and talked about Google Groups instead. That's not good. > > The only reason I didn't directly help the OP was because the code was > misformatted and it was necessary to request that it be reposted. > Perhaps I should have been clearer in saying "Please repost your code > with correct formatting", but there wasn't much else I could have > done. In this case, the OP provided an error message which showed that he wasn't getting a SyntaxError, so we could assume that the problem lay elsewhere. It depends how much work you want to put into overlooking the mis-formatting of the code. > > Or maybe I should have just filtered everything from Google Groups > into the bit bucket, because responding just creates threads like > this. Do you honestly think that would be better? No response at all > if the post comes from GG? If *you* don't want to respond to any GG post, that will be fine: others will respond. Even better is to respond to the posts to help the OP. > > ChrisA > -- Ned Batchelder, http://nedbatchelder.com