Thanks all for the ideas. I wanted to have my own error messages printed for the user - something a little more meaningful than the standard error.
Thanks for the advice - very helpful! On Jul 9, 2012, at 6:12 AM, Alan Gauld wrote: > On 09/07/12 10:19, Kwpolska wrote: >> Why does this bloody ML want me to respond to the last person instead >> of tutor@python.org? > > Because that's how it, along with many other mailing lists, works. > If it helps, think of it as you receiving a mail from the sender and CCd to > the list. Therefore hitting reply sends to the person who sent the mail and > ReplyAll goes to everyone. Seems logical to me! :-) > It allows me to choose to reply to the OP only or to the group, I use both > depending on the nature of my reply. (About 80% of my replies go to the > everyone.) But some prefer it differently... :-) > >>> Why not the more usual: >>> >>> import sys, os, imp, stat, \ >>> re, webbrowser, Image, \ >>> StringIO, shutil, datetime >> >> Why not the more standard: >> import sys >> import os >> and so on? http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#imports > > Indeed but the OP seemed to want to remove duplicate coding so I assumed that > he included using multiple imports. > > Personally I'd probably code the above as: > > import sys, os, shutil, stat, datetime > import re, StringIO > import webbrowser, > import Image, > import imp > > Which groups things into roughly related categories - system, > strings, other... > > OTOH I ignore large chunks of Pep 8 because I find its style harder to read > than the one I'm used to. But then, I'm not contributing to the standard > library etc... Style is largely a matter of taste. > > -- > Alan G > Author of the Learn to Program web site > http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor