On 2010-04-08, 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 will certain try to avoid not answering in a manner not unlike that. -- Grant -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list