[Tutor] how do you get a reply to show up on the list?

[Danny Yoo]

On Thu, 8 May 2003, roy ollis wrote:

>    i sent a couple of questions about alan gauld about his tutorial from
> the built in reply function for hotmail.com .  i think the reply must
> have been sent directly to him rather than the list. i looked a few few
> other emails and seen tutor@python.org in the Cc section.  is putting
> the tutor address in the cc box the correct way? the questions for alan
> were very basic


Hi Roy,

Yes, please send your questions to 'tutor@python.org' --- that way, we all
can better help you get answers to your questions.  By sending to Tutor,
you're allowing the community to involve itself.  These kinds of mailing
lists are set up so that we try to avoid a single-point-of-failure sort of
thing.



> "Python version 1.5.2 is the latest release at the time of writing " is
> it still accurate for python 2.2.2? (first page)

Well, it was accurate at the time that Alan wrote that sentence.  *grin*
There are a few things that have changed, but overall, the language has
been pretty stable.  If you're interested in reviewing some of the changes
between 1.52 and 2.2.2, there's a nice set of summary pages here:

    http://www.python.org/1.6/#news
    http://www.python.org/2.0/new-python.html
    http://www.amk.ca/python/2.1/
    http://www.python.org/doc/2.2.2/whatsnew/whatsnew22.html



(hmmm... one of the alternative links to the "What's New in Python 2.2" is
broken...  I'd better tell the webmaster about it so that it gets fixed.)



> "For example you might be producing a document (such as this tutorial)
> which comprises lots of separate files. Your world processor may produce
> backup copies of each file as it saves a new version" is world a typo of
> word or is there something more i need to know? (page 2)

It's a typo.  I hope.  *grin*



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