On 02Jul2013 19:46, Roy Smith <[email protected]> wrote: | In article <[email protected]>, | Ned Deily <[email protected]> wrote: | | > If you find a bug in Python, don't send it to comp.lang.python; file | > a bug report in the issue tracker. | | I'm not sure I agree with that one, at least not fully. It's certainly | true that you shouldn't expect anybody to do anything about a bug unless | you open an issue. | | On the other hand, I often find it useful to discuss things that I | believe are bugs on c.l.p first. Sometimes people will explain to me | that I'm just doing it wrong. Sometimes the discussion will end up | with, "Yeah, that's a bug". In either case, it serves as a good initial | filter for whether I should file a bug or not, and the discussion is | often educational.
+1 I've certinly been educated that way. -- Cameron Simpson <[email protected]> Try not to get sucked into the vortex of hell, Billy! - MST3K, "Megalon vs. Godzilla" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
