[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > > qualification, you're quite likely to get such disclaimers. If you > > don't want them, learn to ask about stopping your users from > > ACCIDENTALLY doing X, and no reasonable respondant will fail to notice > > the qualification. > Interestingly, that is what I read from the OP, even without the > "ACCIDENTALLY".
While I followed the maxim "in the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess" and didn't put words in his mouth that he had in fact not said: I explained what he could do, and how that wouldn't work IF he did NOT mean ``accidentally''. Not sure if this refusal to assume that the requests are _necessarily_ sensible comes from my several years of experience fielding question in this and other newsgroups, or my even more years of experience as a consultant, both freelance and "in-house" within large organizations... Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list