[Catalog-sig] " A simple printer of nested lists"

[Chris Withers]

On 24/03/2011 08:58, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
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> On 24 Mar, 2011, at 7:46, Chris Withers wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> Any chance we could put a block in place on packages that mention this phrase?
>>
>> Has anyone had any joy tracking down the author of the book that resulted in this avalanche of junk? At the very least they could publish an errata explaining their horrific mistake...
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> It might be this one<http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/programming/python/9781449397524/sharing-your-code-modules-of-functions/update_pypi_with_your_new_code#X2ludGVybmFsX0ZsYXNoUmVhZGVyP3htbGlkPTk3ODE0NDkzOTc1MjQvNjA=>   (I'm not a safari subscriber and cannot see the entire page because of that, but this page did turn up in a google search for the phrase plus the word book.

Yup, I believe it's the one, and the publication date ties in with the 
start of the problem.

Does anyone have contact details for Paul Barry?

cheers,

Chris

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