On 2014-12-11, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > Docfxit <docf...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Thank you all for the encouragement to make it smaller.
> Begin with an empty program, and start constructing the behaviour > from scratch. Ignore anything else you want the program to do; focus > only on *this* behaviour which is confusing you. > > Add only those parts which seem to be related; remove them to verify > whether they're *actually* part of the problematic behaviour. > > Eventually you will have a small program which, if you take any part > away, does not exhibit the behaviour you want explained. And more often than not, you will figure out the answer to your problem while attempting to construct a suitably concise example of your problem. If you can clearly explain and demonstrate your problem, you're 90% of the way to fixing it. -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
