On 2011-08-12, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Please don't feed the troll. Responding to Rick's standard obnoxious posts > is like wrestling with a pig -- you get tired and filthy, you never > accomplish anything useful, and after a while, you realise that the pig is > enjoying it. Save yourself a lot of aggravation and kill-file him now.
You know... I think I just realized where a big part of my misperception of the Python community was. Which is that until todayish, I had not realized that he was regarded as a troll by the rest of the community. But now that a couple of people have told me this, I am a lot more comfortable referring to the Python community in general as "welcoming". I sometimes enjoy trying to extract information from people like that, but I will respect the preferences of the actually-helpful people and drop that line of inquiry. :) -s -- Copyright 2011, all wrongs reversed. Peter Seebach / usenet-nos...@seebs.net http://www.seebs.net/log/ <-- lawsuits, religion, and funny pictures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology) <-- get educated! I am not speaking for my employer, although they do rent some of my opinions. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list