On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 20:57:09 -0700 (PDT), Peter <peter.milli...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Sep 28, 12:31 pm, Steven D'Aprano <steve-REMOVE- >t...@cybersource.com.au> wrote: >> On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:28:34 -0700, Eduardo Ribeiro wrote: >> > But it doesn't work. >> >> What do you mean "doesn't work"? >> >> - It crashes the operating system; >> - You get a core dump; >> - You get an exception; >> - It hangs forever, never doing anything; >> - It does something unexpected; >> - Something else? >> >> -- >> Steven > >It seems to be a fairly absolute statement - so I would assume all of >the above! :-) I assume "None of the above." Each of the above requires doing some work, so if "doesn't work" implies "does no work", then the closest it could come to that is: - It terminates almost immediately* without producing any output. *Required, or it might have been doing some work and just forgot to output the results. wwwayne -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list