Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: New to Python - block grouping (spaces) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 16:28:21 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <9fc57fc9-0399-4ff3-882a-d041f02827d8@googlegroups.com> <6580b5d5-92f5-4bfa-b1d0-889c69fe82bb@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 67-130-15-94.dia.static.qwest.net X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1429288101 29410 67.130.15.94 (17 Apr 2015 16:28:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 16:28:21 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:89078 On 2015-04-17, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 04/16/2015 08:52 AM, Blake McBride wrote: >> Thanks for all the responses. I especially like the Pike pointer. >> To be clear: > [troll bait elided] > While it appears that you had already made up your mind about the > matter long before posting, and perhaps was just looking for > vindication, I feel that some of the snide replies you got were just > not tremendously professional. There are people who post to Usenet professionally? And I've been doing it all these years _for_free_? And, it's not like there's some sort of Olympics for which I needed to maintain my amateur standing. > However, it may be that people recognized that you likely had made up > your mind already, and posted accordingly. I think most of us just assumed he was just trolling and were playing along for the fun of it. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! As President I have at to go vacuum my coin gmail.com collection!