On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Walter Hurry <walterhu...@lavabit.com> wrote: > On Thu, 03 Oct 2013 11:35:00 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> On Thu, 03 Oct 2013 09:21:08 +0530, Ravi Sahni wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Walter Hurry <walterhu...@lavabit.com> >>> wrote: >>>> Ding ding! Nikos is simply trolling. It's easy enough to killfile him >>>> but inconvenient to skip all the answers to his lengthy threads. If >>>> only people would just ignore him! >>> >>> Hello Walter Hurry please wait! >>> >>> Did I do/say something wrong?! >> >> Don't worry about it Ravi, you haven't done anything wrong. >> >> Walter is not a regular here. At best he is a lurker who neither asks >> Python questions nor answers them. In the last four months, I can see >> four posts from him: three are complaining about Nikos, and one is a >> two- >> line "Me to!" response to a post about defensive programming. >> >> >> >>> If one of us should go it should be me -- Im just a newbie here. >> >> No, you are welcome here. You've posted more in just a few days than >> Walter has in months. We need more people like you. > > Steven, > > You make a fair point. I have posted very little recently, for the > following reasons: > > a) I'm not really competent enough to answer python questions, at least > not yet. > > b) I try not to post my own Python questions unless as a last resort. I > prefer to try to solve my own problems by reading the fine documentation, > and DuckDuckGoing. > > However, I do lurk assiduously and have learned much by reading excellent > 'answering' posts from many such as you. > > The 'Goodbye' post was made in rather a fit of pique, for which I > apologise. If I am allowed a second chance, there is actually something > puzzling me at the moment. It's a UnicodeDecodeError, but I shall start > a separate thread about it. > > Sorry again.
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