On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info>wrote:
> On 24/05/13 06:37, Jim Mooney wrote: > >> Apparently Wing isn't as savvy as IDLE when it comes to communicating >>> with the subprocess. I've only searched for about a minute, but >>> apparently the way this works in Wing is to "Restart Shell": >>> >>> http://stackoverflow.com/a/**10360503/205580<http://stackoverflow.com/a/10360503/205580> >>> http://www.wingware.com/doc/**debug/interactive-python-shell<http://www.wingware.com/doc/debug/interactive-python-shell> >>> >>> This kills the suprocess and starts a new interpreter. Crude, but it >>> should get the job done. >>> >> >> Thanks. I'll put stackoverflow on my bookmarks. >> > > Beware though, while there are often some very good answers on > Stackoverflow, there are also very many people who are nowhere near as > knowledgeable as they think, giving terrible answers, and still having > large scores. (One particular person comes to mind, I forget his name but > he has a *very* high score which means lots of people are voting for his > answers, and yet every time without exception I've seen him reply to > someone he has been rude, missed the entire point of their question, or > given them bad advice. Or all three at once.) > I love, love, love StackOverflow (and the whole StackExchange ecosystem), but it's unfortunately susceptible to being gamed. Anyone can edit a question (or an answer), and if the edit is allowed to stand the editor gets 2 points. There are millions of questions, so this process can be repeated ad nauseam. I used to spend a lot of time on english.stackexchange.com, and one of the reasons I got fed up with it is exactly that: unhelpful, opinionated users whose scores were inflated to make them seem authoritative. One of them edited several of my answers, making no change except to turn dashes into Unicode em dashes - and his score was four times higher than mine, despite hardly having any answers accepted (due to being a rude, ignorant loudmouth). I have no problem at all with true experts having higher scores than mine (especially if they answer more questions than I, and do it beautifully) but I came to resent being ranked behind jerks. The system still _mostly_ works, though, and it sure beats the hell out of ExpertSexChange or whatever they're calling it these days...
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