It does however seem > to remember my last style and just use that again.
I'd like a default - choose rich text when I need it but always go back to the default. But like Javascript's annoying habit of deciding your type invisibly, with arcane rules (one reason I switched to Python), Gmail sometimes does too much for you ;') I could probably write something in autohotkey or webmonkey, but there is only so much time in a day and the Lutz book (Learning Python - O'Reilly) is Big and Very Detailed, so I'm focusing on that. I'll just try to keep an eye on my format. Speaking of which, I was amazed there were so many complaints about what I consider the Lutz book's PyVirtues, on Amazon - "It's too big," or "The author repeats himself." Well, duh, if it's that big and that detailed you Need repetition, unless you have a photographic memory, which I do not. I am glad to see something repeated three times in different ways. Bythe third time I might remember it. (A plug for Clipmate here - when a long string of Python expressions is listed in a book, Clipmate's automatic text cleanup or exploding paste can usually strip out all the garbage, like >>> and commas, so you can just sequentially paste the terms into a Python program to see what each one does.) Besides stripping, you can replace those dumb "fancy" quotes with ones that will work in the interpreter, or even work up a regex. I'm amazed more programming authors don't realize it's a lot easier to just copy a program fragment into an interpreter, from an ebook, than go hunting for the downloaded folder of examples. Go fancy with the printed book, but us plain quotes for e-books. Thankfully, Lutz wrote his book so you can copy and paste easily with no errors. Or he beat the editor about the head and shoulders until he agreed to usability. As for the detail, Lutz seems to anticipate nearly every confusion or screwup I'm about to make, which my last Python book didn't. It left me in the woods a lot, so I had to come here asking dumb questions. That's a big timesaver. So I recommend the Lutz book, which despite its size, he says is only the Python intro. His second book is on practical programming in depth. Jim _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
