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[placid]

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Fri, 12 May 2006 14:30:12 -0000, Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com>
> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
>
> > On 2006-05-12, Sybren Stuvel <sybrenUSE at YOURthirdtower.com.imagination> wrote:
> > > placid enlightened us with:
> > >>> 	Did you read the documentation for Queue methods?
> > >>
> > >> there is no need to be patronizing about this dude, im just learning
> > >> Python in my spare time, as im a Intern Software Engineer
> > >
> > > There is nothing patronizing about the question, it's merely
> > > an enquiry to a possible fact. If you're going to be a techie,
> > > you should learn stuff like that.
> >
> > It's also valuable information to the maintainers of the
> > documentation.  If he _did_ read the documentation and still
> > didn't know that Queue.get() could block, then one might ask
> > how the documentation could be improved.
>
> 	If it means anything -- I typically do bring up the help files and
> cut&paste the relevant paragraph. But I had a 24-hour backlog and it was
> late at night so a straight off-the-cuff entry was made. Though I
> suppose one could go back to the "smart questions" FAQ, and have
> suggested the original poster tell us what documentation was read in
> search of a solution prior to their post (in which case my short
> response could be interpreted as a less than subtle hint to read the
> references first).

telling me to read the documentation would have been a good reminder
dude!


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thanks again for all of you who replied with great answers.