On Apr 7, 9:02 pm, James Stroud <nospamjstroudmap...@mbi.ucla.edu> wrote: > Patrick Maupin wrote: > > BTW, although I find it annoying when people say "don't do that" when > > "that" is a perfectly good thing to do, and although I also find it > > annoying when people tell you what not to do without telling you what > > *to* do, and although I find the regex solution to this problem to be > > quite clean, the equivalent non-regex solution is not terrible > > I propose a new way to answer questions on c.l.python that will (1) give > respondents the pleasure of vague admonishment and (2) actually answer the > question. The way I propose utilizes the double negative. For example: > > "You are doing it wrong! Don't not do <code>re.split('\s{2,}', s[2])</code>." > > Please answer this way in the future.
I most certainly will not consider when that isn't warranted! OTOH, in general I am more interested in admonishing the authors of the pseudo-answers than I am the authors of the questions, despite the fact that I find this hilarious: http://despair.com/cluelessness.html Regards, Pat -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list