In a message of Wed, 02 Sep 2015 11:15:43 +0100, Adam McGreggor writes: >Is it a case of that wonderful gmail feature: > > https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6588
Gmail doesn't give android users the ability to send plain text emails. The desktop users are supposed to be able to, but it does not work properly. As happened recently to me, let us say you are a brand new would-be python programmer who has a posted some complicated code to the list, complaining that it 'doesn't work' (give the correct answer). I read the thing and notice that you are removing elements from the list you are iterating over, and reply. Simplified, you have this problem: >>> mylist = [1, 2, 3, 4] >>> for i in mylist: ... mylist.pop() >>> print mylist [1, 2] You need to make a copy of your list and iteratre over that. >>> import copy >>> mylist = [1, 2, 3, 4] >>> mylistcopy = copy.copy(mylist) >>> for i in mylistcopy: ... mylist.pop() >>> print mylist [] Note the series of lines beginning with '>>>' Despite the fact that I sent the mail in plain text, and the gmail user is also sending mail in plain text, _Gmail reserves the right to reflow all the lines you are quoting which begin with some number of '>'._ The conversation immediately goes to utter confusion, as people can no longer paste in 'exactly what happened when I tried this at the console' any more. (Well, you can. Only flush to the margin matters, so my PS1 prompt is now ' >>>'. But all the python users on this planet should not have to change their PS1 prompts because Google just cannot leave 'plain text' alone. But we may be at 'friends don't let friends use gmail' time, if not right now, then fairly soon. Exactly how many things can you do to break mail, Google? Laura ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org