On 2012-10-10, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > On 10/10/2012 16:56, Ramchandra Apte wrote: >> On Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:38:04 UTC+5:30, Roy Smith wrote: >>> Public: I hereby declare that this method or attribute is part of the >>> promised never to change interface of this class. I might possibly >>> break that promise at some point in the future, but if I do, you have >>> the right to bitch and whine about it, and I'm morally obligated to at >>> least pretend I care. >>> >>> Private: I hereby declare that this method or attribute is something I >>> needed to have for my own purposes, and is officially hidden inside my >>> kimono. Like all things inside my kimono, you may speculate about their >>> existence all you want, but you touch them at your own peril. I may >>> change them at some point in the future, and while you can bitch and >>> whine about it all you want, I'm not listening. >> >> Uhum. Language please. > > What language?
Perhaps he didn't like the kimono metaphor? I always though the kimono metaphore as commonly used by MBA/sales types was a little unseemly (but then most of what those types say is, regardless of language or metaphor). > Further the original was readable, your use of CrapMail made life > difficult until I stripped the superfluous newlines out. Is it > really so awkward to equip yourself with a semi-decent mail reader? > Like Thunderbird, hint, hint :) You're tilting at windmills. Just give up and filter out all postings with a messageid ending in '@googlegroups.com'. I find that solves all sorts of problems... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! ! Now I understand at advanced MICROBIOLOGY and gmail.com th' new TAX REFORM laws!! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list