On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 21:38:38 -0500, Mark H Harris wrote: > On 4/3/14 9:10 PM, dave em wrote: >> >> I am taking a cryptography class and am having a tough time with an >> assignment similar to this. >> >> > hi Dave, if your instructor wanted you to work on this with other people > she would have made it a group project and ordered pizza for everyone. > > I'll give you some credit, that last couple of folks that wanted help > with their homework here could not bring themselves to admit they wanted > help with their homework. :) > > "HAL, please help me with my homework!" > > "I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that..." > > "HAL!!?" > > "I'm sorry, Dave, I just can't do that..." > > > marcus
in general i would say:- "Can you 'HELP' with my homework?" is resonable "Can you 'DO' my homework for me" if wrong Not even mentioning it is homework is really taking the P**s Dave has been open Shown his existing work & received assistance on a minor correction, isn't that how we all learn :-) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list