On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 2:24 PM, D'Arcy Cain <da...@vex.net> wrote: > Think of it this way. You drop a ring down a drain. You can ask two > questions, "How do I remove a drain trap?" or "How do I recover a ring that > I dropped down the drain?" If you ask the first question you will get lots > of advice on tools and buckets, etc. People will assume that the drain is > blocked. Ask the second question and someone might mention a magnet and a > piece of string.
... and then you follow up with "it's a gold ring, magnet won't touch it", and we'll go off on a tangent about whether the ring is sufficiently plain that it might be the One Ring, and shouldn't you destroy it instead of retrieving it.... because that's what we do here :D ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
