[Python-ideas] string.format() default variable assignment

[David Robinow]

On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 10:06 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 2:01 PM, David Robinow <drobinow at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:
>>> There's a number of advantages to news vs. mail.  The biggest is that
>>> news spools generally keep a long history around, so it's easy to go
>>> back and review a long thread.
>>  That can't be the biggest since mail stays around forever unless
>> deliberately deleted.
>
> But your mail has only what you receive. You have to hunt down a
> separate archive of what was posted before you joined the thread.
> Advantage goes to news, but a slight one, and if that's the biggest,
> it's not a great advertisement.
 I have no idea what you're trying to say here. As far as I know, when
I subscribe to a list I get all the mail. I don't "join" threads. I
don't even know what that means.
[This has drifted way off topic so I won't be responding again, but
I'll enjoy reading what anyone cares to write.]