Another epileptic seizure on the keyboard. Apart from clue deficit disorder, this guy seems to suffer from some serious anger management problems...*plonk*
"Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Python Doc Problem Example > > Quote from: > http://docs.python.org/lib/module-os.path.html > ---------- > split( path) > Split the pathname path into a pair, (head, tail) where tail is the > last pathname component and head is everything leading up to that. The > tail part will never contain a slash; if path ends in a slash, tail > will be empty. If there is no slash in path, head will be empty. If > path is empty, both head and tail are empty. Trailing slashes are > stripped from head unless it is the root (one or more slashes only). In > nearly all cases, join(head, tail) equals path (the only exception > being when there were multiple slashes separating head from tail). > ---------- > > Can anyone tell me what this verbiage is trying to fucking say? > > what the fuck is with the head and tail thing? > > is the doc writer, trying to write the doc with some austereness, but > is confused about the behavior of split, or confused about expressing > it? Did his pretension fucked him up? > > i was working on a program where i needed to split a path into dirname, > corename, and suffix. But this fucking python doc diverted my work and > wasted my time. It normally isn't a problem to find imperfections in > the world except the fucking OpenSourcers fuck with their fucking > moronicity and moronitude and propagate haughtily their fucking lies > and stupidity. Die. > > Suggested rewrite: > > split(path) > returns a pair (dirname,filename), where dirname is the part of path > up to the last slash, and filename is the rest of the string after the > last slash. > > Exceptional cases are: > · if path is a single slash (or repeated), then path == dirname and > filename is empty. > · If the "last" slash is repeated, they are treated as one single > slash. > > ------------ > Fuck the motherfucking liers of OpenSourcing fuckheads. > (Note: my use of OpenSource here does not include people of GNU > community.) > > For more about Python Doc problems, see > http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/t2/xlali_skami_cukta.html > > Xah > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ? http://xahlee.org/ > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
