Threads aren't distinguished by titles and they don't belong to anyone [was: Re: shelve error]

[Steve Holden]

7stud wrote:
>> Discussion subject changed to "Python universal build, OSX 10.3.9 and undefined symbols when
>> linking" by David Pratt
> 
> What gives?  How come you can change the title of my thread?
> 
> 
> On Apr 8, 8:14 pm, a... at mac.com (Alex Martelli) wrote:
>> But if you open an errata for the missing explanation for the different
>> default value of the flag argument (use URL
>> <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonian2/errata/>), I'll be glad to
>> fix it for the next printing...
> 
> In my opinion, the most valuable thing you could do for a next
> printing would be to expand the index to 3 times its current length.
> As it is now, I think the index is woefully inadequate, which I find
> surprising for a reference book.  I haven't been able to find 3/4 of
> the things I have looked up in the index.  For instance __get__(),
> __set__(), and sorted() are nowhere to be found in the index.
> 
> Also, the book is brand new, yet the cover has completely separated
> from the spine of the book, and now the cover is only attached to the
> first and last pages with a bit of glue.
> 
That's not something an author can do much about ...

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  Steve
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