python-list/python-dev quoting style

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Fri Feb 24 13:31:25 EST 2006


In article <dtml9t$367$1 at gemini.csx.cam.ac.uk>,
Michael Hoffman  <cam.ac.uk at mh391.invalid> wrote:
>Does anyone have a script to convert more conventional USENET quoting 
>style like this:
>
>John wrote:
>> Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt <jjs at example.net> wrote in message-id 
><gratuitous-detail> on 29 February 2004:
>>> Lambda is the best Python feature ever!
>>
>> I disagree.
>
>to the commonly used python-dev/python-list style like this:
>
>[Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt]
>>> Lambda is the best Python feature ever!
>
>[John]
>> I disagree.

Blech.  Stick with the standard Usenet quoting style for both!
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