On Friday, May 15, 2015 at 9:33:54 PM UTC-4, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Ned Batchelder <n...@nedbatchelder.com> > wrote: > > On Friday, May 15, 2015 at 8:57:53 PM UTC-4, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> On Sat, 16 May 2015 05:41 am, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: > >> > >> > Cecil Westerhof wrote: > >> > > >> >> While playing with recursion I get: > >> >> RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded in comparison > >> >> > >> >> But then I get a very long stack trace. Is there a way to make this a > >> >> lot shorter. Now I 'lose' interesting information because of the length > >> >> of the stack trace. > >> > > >> > <http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html> > >> > >> There ought to be a website that explains how to give smart answers. > > > > Or one that explains how to be kind to those that don't know > > the ropes yet. Though pointing impatient experts at a > > website probably won't get them to change any more than > > brusquely pointing newbs at a website will. > > You mean like this? > > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#idp64834912 > > (Not sure whether you knew and were hinting, or didn't know that > that's explicitly mentioned.)
I didn't realize that was in there. :) It's a good demonstration that we can all improve in various ways. Being right isn't the highest ideal, there are other things to aspire to as well. --Ned. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list