On Sunday, June 16, 2013 1:16:02 PM UTC-7, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 09:15:11 -0700 (PDT), alphons...@gmail.com declaimed > > the following: > > > > >sorry about that. I'm new to google groups. I'm trying to make sense of > >python's implementation of timsort through cpython: > >http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/default/Objects/listobject.c > > > > > Since you are new to GoogleGroups, if you can, run away from it as fast > > as possible. While material may look okay on their system, it is > > practically trashed when getting out into the real world. (Paragraphs > > either come in as long lines with no wrapping [Usenet/Email convention is > > for 80 character lines, and to allow for > quotes original text should wrap > > around 72-75], or they end up double-spacing stuff that comes in following > > the 80 character line length (GG is treating hard end-of-line as a > > paragraph marker, and on quoting, adding a blank line between these > > "paragraphs") > > > > Either subscribe to the mailing list (and use a real mail client rather > > than web-mail) or use a news reader; if your ISP doesn't provide an NNTP > > server carrying comp.lang.python, it is available from Gmane as > > gmane.comp.python.general (the mailing list and comp.lang.python are cross > > linked, and Gmane shows the mailing list as if it were a Usenet news group) > > > > And just another comment: preference on the group is "trim quoted > > material and comment below the quote (or interspersed with the quotes)"... > > The style created with M$ Outlook (Outlook goes out of its way to make it > > impossible to trim/intersperse -- it considers quoted material as a > > photocopy attached to the back of a new letter) in which one comments at > > the top of the quoted material, and never trims to relevant material is > > frowned upon. >
Understood. I just subscribed to the news group, though I'm using gmail. hopefully it will work better than google groups. I'll keep all the advice here in mind whenever I post. > -- > > Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN > > wlfr...@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list