Re: Understanding "help" command description syntax - explanation needed

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Date	2014-11-05 10:56 -0500
Subject	Re: Understanding "help" command description syntax - explanation needed
From	Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Message-ID	<mailman.15502.1415203020.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 7:41 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 11:31 PM, Ivan Evstegneev
> <webmailgroups@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> That's what I'm talking about (asking actually), where do you know it from?
>>
>>>>I know it because I've been a programmer for 39 years.
>>
>> I didn't intend to offence anyone here. Just asked a questions ^_^
>
> Don't worry about offending people.

Exactly. This is the internet - it's all about annoying people ;-)

> Even if you do annoy one or two,
> there'll be plenty of us who know to be patient :) And I don't think
> Larry was actually offended; it's just that some questions don't
> really have easy answers - imagine someone asking a great
> mathematician "But how do you KNOW that 2 + 2 is 4? Where's it written
> down?"... all he can say is "It is".

Yeah, I'm on a lot of lists and lately I've seen a lot of 'I'm not a
programmer, but I want to write code and I need someone to tell me
how." Gets to you after a while.

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Re: Understanding "help" command description syntax - explanation needed Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-11-05 10:56 -0500

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