PythonWin IDE sucks!

[Albert Wagner]

Courtesy and discourtesy are conventions defined by the members of a
community. What your intent was is a matter for your personal
conscience.  I think that the community has made it abundantly clear
that you violated convention.  You, of course, are free to do so.  But
if you ever have occasion to travel the world, you may find that your
attitude can get you killed or maimed, rather than politely informed of
community conventions.

Dale Strickland-Clark wrote:
> 
> OK. I give up.
> 
> This newsgroup has to get the prize for some of the fragile, sensitive
> egos on the net.
> 
> I've just received this by email:
> 
> "As a friend of the person who wrote PythonWin, I didn't see anything
> lighthearted about your message at all and although I have some ideas
> to help you improve your situation, there is no way I am going to
> bother unless you apologize. I suspect a lot of very knowledgeable
> people reading the list feel the same way.
> Paul Prescod"
> 
> If you want to have a go at me, please have the balls to do it on the
> original forum.
> 
> FWIW, I have exchanged several emails with Mark Hammond and hold him
> in high esteem. I thinkI have even thanked him for introducing me to
> Python through the book he co-authored with Andy Robinson.
> 
> If I believed this to be a real problem with PythonWin, I would
> probably have emailed Mark directly, however, I was half expecting
> someone to reply that I was being a twat and should so such-and-such
> and the problem would go away.
> 
> Instead I find I am surrounded by a bunch of frail-hearts who
> come-over all faint when the language departs from the usual
> obsequious pleas for help.
> 
> Not all, thankfully. I have had a few very helpful emails who seem to
> have taken my original post in the light it was intended.
> 
> I feel no apology is required as no offence was intended.
> 
> --
> Dale Strickland-Clark
> Out-Think Ltd
> Business Technology Consultants

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