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On 15/04/2014 20:07, Chris Angelico wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:02 AM, Phil Dobbin <phildobbin@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 15/04/2014 19:41, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>>> Recommendation: If you don't understand something, keep it there :)
>>> You can just copy and paste from the Python interactive interpreter
>>> (command line or IDLE) straight into the email; it'll be easier to
>>> explain, that way.
>>>
>>> This is *especially* true of tracebacks. You might not see the
>>> difference, but to us, it's often hugely helpful to see the entire
>>> exception report.
>>
>> Good advice.
>>
>> Truth is I'm writing emails on my laptop & attempting Python on a
>> Desktop machine so I lazily copied by eye. My mistake.
> 
> Understandable. I currently am using two consoles (laptop at my right
> hand, desktop in front of me), and every now and then I want to copy
> and paste across them :) I mean, shared clipboard works just fine
> across all my VM guests (and as I type that, Disney's cast is singing
> "Be our guest" in my background music), it even works across remote
> desktop, but for some reason, swinging my hands 90 degrees doesn't
> transfer the clipboard. This strikes me as a major flaw in human
> beings.

:-)

Couldn't agree more. Not enough thought put into that one whoever did it :-)

Cheers,

  Phil...

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