Eval of expr with 'or' and 'and' within

[alex23]

On Saturday, 15 June 2013 02:09:20 UTC+10, Steven D'Aprano  wrote:
> To everyone else... I know that Nikos' posts are draining. Sometimes he 
> brings me to the brink of despair too. But if you aren't part of the 
> solution, you are part of the problem: writing short-tempered, insulting 
> posts after short-tempered, insulting post doesn't teach him, it just 
> adds to EVERYBODY'S frustration with this never-ending serious of threads.

What about our frustration that this thread has become so overwhelmingly his support group? It's not like there isn't a list where he could post absolute beginner questions:

http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Although I'm pretty sure their first response would be "read the docs / play with the interpreter", neither of which he's shown any desire to do.

> Please keep the snarky comments offlist. 

Tried that. He posts them back here.

Alternatively, I'd ask that if you're so willing to deal with him, that the *two of you* take this show offlist instead? I'm genuinely curious as to whether he'd agree to this: given his propensity for changing his mail headers so regularly, the whole thing still screams performance troll. (I mean, seriously, how many days elapsed between his being burned by Chris Angelo and him offering to give you access to his server? Isn't refusing to budge from a position the defining characteristic of a ferrous cranus?)