This is admittedly getting off-topic but my rationale is that I am keen to get as many people using spyder and associates as possible. I am in the process off switching my research group from IDL and Matlab to scientific python and I want this to be a long-term viable solution. This in no small part relies on there being a dedicated but also large community which I am hoping to support by being friendly. So while I appreciate the humour in Ariel's comment I agree with David.
On 10 April 2011 22:12, David <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday, April 11, 2011 1:53:23 PM UTC+10, abalter wrote: >> >> We should all remember that this is a forum for snarky comments about >> Spyder. If you don't have any trivial complaints, ridiculous feature >> requests, or other nonsensical comments about Spyder, then this is not the >> place. If you need help with your Finite Math homework, please post to the >> PyDev forum instead. > > While this comment is perfectly correct, it does highlight one of the > problems with using python for scientific computing in comparison to > matlab. If a newbie has a matlab problem, then they can go to a matlab > forum and expect to get a reasonable answer. But if that problem occurs in > python, then a beginner might need to ask their question in a python, > spyder, numpy, scipy, pyqt etc. forum, and if you aren't familiar with the > full tool stack and the relationship between all the parts, it could be a > bit confusing (the same goes for reading through documentation). So I would > advocate being forgiving of slightly off-topic questions. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "spyder" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "spyder" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib?hl=en.
