Fwd: [BUG] missing ')' causes syntax error on next line

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Wed Jul 22 20:45:50 EDT 2020


On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 10:30 AM Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 22 July 2020 19:51:42 Chris Angelico wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 9:17 AM dn via Python-list
> >
> > <python-list at python.org> wrote:
> > > However, questions remain:-
> > >
> > > Robot: any machine or mechanical device that operates automatically
> > > with humanlike skill
> >
> > What about a human that operates mechanically with merely robot-like
> > skill? I'm pretty sure I've spoken to them on the phone many times.
> >
> > ChrisA
>
> Thats more common than you might think Chris.  Whats nice is that you can
> often take over that robot and use his or her hands to troubleshoot an
> off the air tv transmitter from a thousand miles away.  That was my
> field of expertise for 60 years.
>

Ah yes. I was more thinking of the ones you get when you call for
support. "Have you rebooted your computer and router?" "THERE IS NO
ADSL SYNC. Rebooting my computer is not going to change that."

ChrisA


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