Why not just show the out-of-range index?

[Carsten Haese]

On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 01:04 -0800, Russ wrote:
> Robert Kern wrote:
> 
> > Nothing is going to happen until you do one of these two things. Being more rude
> > (and yes, you are being incredibly rude and insulting) won't move things along.
> 
> I re-read the thread, and I don't see anywhere where I was rude

Please allow me to break it down for you:

Your first reply on this thread, or second message, said:

"""
Now, that [submitting a patch that fixes the problem] would be rather
silly. I would have to familiarize myself
with the code for the Python interpreter, then send a patch to the
maintainers (and hope they notice it in their inboxes), while the
maintainers themselves could probably "fix" the problem in two minutes
flat. No thanks!

My suggestion is trivial to implement and would benefit every Python
programmer (even if only slightly), so I don't think it is too much to
ask for.
"""

You may not have meant this to be rude, but it does come off as rude and
arrogant, and I'll explain to you why: In your first post you stated
that the feature seems like a no-brainer to you. That implies to the
reader that you might have the necessary skill to implement the feature
yourself, hence Robert's suggestion to submit a patch was, in the
context you gave yourself, neither unreasonable nor silly. I can see how
your calling a reasonable suggestion by a valuable community member
"silly" would be construed as rude and arrogant.

Hope this helps,

Carsten.