In article <509441cb$0$29967$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >On Fri, 02 Nov 2012 04:20:20 -0700, Jason Benjamin wrote: >> >> Anybody know of the appropriate place to troll and flame about various >> Python related issues? I'm kind of mad about some Python stuff and I >> need a place to vent where people may or may not listen, but at at least >> respond. Thought this would be a strange question, but I might as well >> start somewhere. > >Thank you for your honesty, but trolling is not welcome. > >However if you have actual issues about Python, either pro or con, and >hope to have a serious, respectful dialog where both parties listen to >each other, feel free to raise them here. Keep in mind three things: > >- We've probably heard all your arguments a thousand times before. It's > unlikely that you are either the first or the last person to notice > that (e.g.) Python has significant indentation. So expect a certain > amount of brusqueness. > >- If your argument boils down to "Python isn't <insert language here>" > we will not be sympathetic, and will probably sneer or laugh at you > privately. And possibly publicly too. > >- If you hope to convince the Python community to change <feature X>, > we are constrained by backwards-compatibility issues, policies, and > design decisions. Frequently there are (mis-)features that we simply > have to live with, for good or ill.
You forgot the fourth point. -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "....Normal is what cuts off your sixth finger and your tail..." --Siobhan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list