On 24/01/2014 17:19, Ram Rachum wrote: > Hmm, on one hand I understand the need for the separation between > python-dev and python-list, but on the other hand I don't think > python-list is a good place to discuss Python, the language. > > I now looked at the 17 most recent python-list threads. Out of them: > > - 58% are about third-party packages. > - 17% are off-topic (not even programming related) > - 11% are 2-vs-3 discussions > - 5% are job offers. > - 5% (which is just one thread out of 17) is about Python the language. > I'm extremely impressed by your knowledge of statistics, it must have taken you many man years of effort to analyse all 17 threads in such detail. > So can you understand why someone would be reluctant to start a > discussion in python-list about Python the language there? Especially if > this is the same place where beginners might ask newbies questions about > Python? (So not only are actual Python questions just 5% of the content, > non-newbie questions are just a subset of that 5%.) > > it's full of people asking about third-party Python packages, or asking > newbie questions. > How terrible, fancy having the audacity to ask about third party packages or newbie questions on the *MAIN* Python mailing list. There's yet another reason to bring back the death penalty in the UK. -- 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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