PyWart(2.7.8) IDLE is more buggy than "Joe's apartment"!

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Jul 21 11:19:22 EDT 2014


On 21/07/2014 15:27, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2014-07-21, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> You call it a bug because you can't think of any way it could be
>> beneficial. That's the wrong way of looking at it. Something isn't a
>> bug because you find it annoying; it's a bug because it fails to
>> implement the programmer's intentions and/or the docs/specification.
>
> I was always taught that it's a "bug" is when a program doesn't do
> what a reasonable user expects -- that it's got nothing to do with the
> programmer's intent.
>

As in my entire career I've never come across a "reasonable user" then 
by that definition there are no bugs.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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