Re: Google Not Universal Panacea [was: Re: Where to find python c-sources]

2005-10-08 Thread Alex Martelli
Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Are people really too lazy to do elementary research on Google? goes a bit too far in imputing motives to the enquirer and overlooking the fact that there are some very good reasons for *not* using Google. It's a good thing you don't actually

Re: Google Not Universal Panacea [was: Re: Where to find python c-sources]

2005-10-01 Thread Steve Holden
Erik Max Francis wrote: Steve Holden wrote: While a snappish go and look it up on Google might suffice for a mouthy apprentice who's just asked their thirteenth question in the last half hour, it's (shall we say) a little on the brusque side for someone who only appears on the group last

Re: Google Not Universal Panacea [was: Re: Where to find python c-sources]

2005-10-01 Thread Erik Max Francis
Steve Holden wrote: I don't think The source tarball on python.org could claim to be telling him exactly where it was given that my copy of the web site has 341 MB of stuff in it. He doesn't have to search through the whole thing, there's a link on the front page, so this 341 MB figure is

Google Not Universal Panacea [was: Re: Where to find python c-sources]

2005-09-30 Thread Steve Holden
Tor Erik Sønvisen wrote: Erik Max Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tor Erik Sønvisen wrote: I need to browse the socket-module source-code. I believe it's contained in the file socketmodule.c, but I can't locate this file... Where should I look? The

Re: Google Not Universal Panacea [was: Re: Where to find python c-sources]

2005-09-30 Thread Erik Max Francis
Steve Holden wrote: While a snappish go and look it up on Google might suffice for a mouthy apprentice who's just asked their thirteenth question in the last half hour, it's (shall we say) a little on the brusque side for someone who only appears on the group last February, and has a