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On 06/01/2014 23:14, Ben Finney wrote:
> Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> writes:
>
>> You arrogance really has no bounds.  If you'd have done the job that
>> you should have done in the first place and stopped that blithering
>> idiot 16 months ago, we wouldn't still be putting up with him now.
>
> That is a misdirection; Ned's request that you stop bad behaviour
> (baiting known trolls into responding on a thread) is unrelated to
> Armin's bad behaviour. Don't use the bad behaviour of others to justify
> yours.
>

Armin isn't our resident unicode expert!!!

>> And as I started this thread, I'll say what I please, throwing my toys
>> out of my pram in just the same way that your pal Armin is currently
>> doing.
>
> We expect everyone to behave well, regardless of whether they start a
> thread or not. Don't use the bad behaviour of others to justify yours.
>
> We know you're better than this, Mark. Please stop.
>

Fair comment, though I'll confess I feel rather better for having let 
off a bit of steam.  At the same time I really must stop being so 
defensive of the python ecosytem and its core developers and start 
complaining about what they haven't done for me.  My list follows below.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence