>
> - Don't spam the same question in several different threads, and
> especially don't privately email list participants with the same
> question. Doing so is likely to get you ignored by people who would
> otherwise be quite happy to help you.
I'd like to make that comment stronger: by repeating the same question
over and over, the questioner is giving the impression of a petulant
child.
I _know_ that's not the intent of the original questioner. But I have
to say exactly what kind of impression I'm getting from this.
Sometimes the person making the mistake doesn't realize how bad of a
mistake they're making.
The guidelines in:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
are that: just guidelines. But there's a good reason they're there,
because violating them makes it much more difficult to get good
answers from a group of enthusiast volunteers. It makes them less
enthusiastic.
I don't think there's been any other changes to the question as
originally asked since back in January, right?
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2014-January/099466.html
In fact, when the question was asked again a few days later, I tried
the automatic 2to3 translator on the program. I had no problem with
it: it translated directly.
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2014-January/099591.html
So it begs the question: doesn't that kill the problem? The natural
followup would be: why isn't the original questioner using 2to3? Are
they having a problem with the tool? So we asked, but we never got a
satisfactory answer to that question: the original questioner ignored
us.
And again, the original questioner asked the same exact question a few
days later:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2014-January/099708.html
with a similar response.
So I'm inclined to give it one more shot. S Tareq, why not use "2to3"?
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