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Re: A mistake which almost went me mad

From Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: A mistake which almost went me mad
Date 2016-03-03 10:48 +0000
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On 03/03/2016 10:43, Nick Sarbicki wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 10:26 AM ast <nomail@invalid.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hello
>>
>> This has to be told
>>
>> I created a file pickle.py
>>
> 
>  You could stop there.
> 
> The number of times I've had to correct a student for naming their script
> "turtle.py".

A few teachers recently were discussing this on Twitter. One suggested
that his pupils always add their initials to whatever filename they use.
That tends to avoid this issue (as well as helping work out later whose
file is whose on things like Raspberry Pi).

TJG

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A mistake which almost went me mad "ast" <nomail@invalid.com> - 2016-03-03 11:21 +0100
  Re: A mistake which almost went me mad Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-03 21:31 +1100
  Re: A mistake which almost went me mad Nick Sarbicki <nick.a.sarbicki@gmail.com> - 2016-03-03 10:43 +0000
  Re: A mistake which almost went me mad Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2016-03-03 10:48 +0000
    Re: A mistake which almost went me mad Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2016-03-04 19:19 +1300
  Re: A mistake which almost went me mad Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-03 23:57 +1100
  Re: A mistake which almost went me mad Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2016-03-03 05:48 -0600
  Re: A mistake which almost went me mad Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2016-03-03 16:29 +0000
    Re: A mistake which almost went me mad Rob Gaddi <rgaddi@highlandtechnology.invalid> - 2016-03-03 17:53 +0000
  Re: A mistake which almost went me mad Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2016-03-03 12:50 -0600
  Re: A mistake which almost went me mad Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-03-07 09:19 -0700
  Re: A mistake which almost went me mad Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-03-07 11:28 -0500
  Re: A mistake which almost went me mad Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-08 03:40 +1100
  Re: A mistake which almost went me mad Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2016-03-09 08:34 -0800
    Re: A mistake which almost went me mad Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2016-03-09 22:13 -0800
      Re: A mistake which almost went me mad Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2016-03-10 16:54 -0800

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