Re: [Tutor] Newcomer with organizational questions

2016-05-26 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 26/05/16 23:34, Max Jegers wrote: > that I wrote a reply with a thank you and a follow-up question, only to > discover that I don’t see a way to send it. A mailing list works by email, so you reply as you would to any email. If you use Reply it goes to the person who sent the email. If you use

Re: [Tutor] Newcomer with organizational questions

2016-05-26 Thread Ben Finney
Max Jegers writes: > I am a newcomer who asked a first question here at Tutor. Soon I > received a very good answer from a tutor and put an effort to > understand it. Welcome, and I'm glad you had a positive experience finding help here! > After that I wrote a reply with a thank you and a follo

[Tutor] Newcomer with organizational questions

2016-05-26 Thread Max Jegers
Hi, I am a newcomer who asked a first question here at Tutor. Soon I received a very good answer from a tutor and put an effort to understand it. After that I wrote a reply with a thank you and a follow-up question, only to discover that I don’t see a way to send it. I need to say I did not wri

Re: [Tutor] Baffling problem with a list of objects sharing a property

2016-05-26 Thread Danny Yoo
> They are. You've stiumbled on one of those Python peculiarities of > implementation that can be useful and annoying in equal measure. > >> class Test(object): >> def __init__(self, name, paths=[]): >> self.name = name >> self.paths = paths > > When you give a function/method a default value

Re: [Tutor] Logging exceptions, but getting stderr output instead

2016-05-26 Thread Terry Carroll
On Wed, 25 May 2016, Alex Hall wrote: You're not missing anything; I wasn't clear. I wasn't sure if raise or sys.exit(1) were the preferred ways, or if there was some other way I didn't know about. If you're aborting because of the exception after unsuccessfully trying to handle it, you can a