On 2006-12-07, Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Yeah, it hit me seconds after I had posted my message. =0 Why >>didn't I think of it during the 30 minutes I spent banging my >>head against the keyboard going nuts over this 'bug' ... > > The same reason you can sometimes find what's wrong just by > explaining the symptoms to another guy... Having to put things > sorted and simple to understand by another, just makes you > think clearly on the problem...
I read a story (was it by Brian Kernighan?) the they required programmers to tell their problem to a stuffed animal first before bothering another programmer who might be in the middle of something. The stuffed animal often provided all the assistance that was needed. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list