jean-jeanot wrote: > Dear Sybrel, > > I am delighted to know that you have been enlighted through my > question. > I am aware of my stupidity and I would say of my ignorance.If all > Python users were not ignorant I suppose the Python group would be > superfluous. I would suggest that if if you think that a question is > supid please do not answer it.In French we say: "There is no stupid > question but answers can be stupid". For the citation of Zappa I am > convinced that when Zappa is speaking of world stupidity he is thinking > to stupidity and wickedness of mankind and not to ignorance.
Ummm, he did not say that your question was stupid. The Zappa quote is included as part of what we refer to as a 'signature'. In the case of Sybren Stuvel's posts to this newsgroup, the Frank Zappa quote is included in every message that he posts. Not just messages that he posts to you. Secondly, I notice that when you quoted Sybren's message in your reply, your newsreader attributed the quoted text with: "Sybren Stuvel a écrit :" Likewise, when Sybren replied to your message, his newsreader attributed the quoted text with, "jean-jeanot enlightened us with:" Do you see what I mean? You didn't write "Sybren Stuvel a écrit" because Sybren was french, did you? Of course, not! Your mail/news application included that attribution by default. By the same token, Sybren's mail/news application defaulted to this attribution: 'jean-jeanot enlightened us with:" When reading people's responses to your queries, stick to the material that they actually "write" at the time of the response. Ignore the stuff that they entered while configuring their respective news/mail reader. Little items like message signatures and quote attributions are, at best, reflective of the personality and/or philosophy of the author, and say nothing of the person receiving the message. :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
