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[John Salerno]

Paddy wrote:

> What I am interested in is if John and others might just take time out
> to critique the replies. I'm interested in what the group think makes a
> good comp.lang.python reply: too short, too long; too cryptic, too
> simplistic, too polite (is their such a thing), too nasty; too
> self-effacing, too self-promoting; too long a sig ;-) ,  too anonymous

Thanks for the reply. It's kind of hard for me to critique your reply at 
this point, because I'm starting to understand my problem now. But what 
I liked about your help was that you took it in steps and show each 
process. What's always a little confusing is when people immediately 
resort to examples for help instead of explaining it in words first, 
because often times this just duplicates the confusion for the OP. But 
examples definitely help!