[Python-Dev] bugs in stdlib (original) (raw)

Eric S. Raymond esr@thyrsus.com
Tue, 31 Dec 2002 11:24:06 -0500

Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>:

Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>: > If you saw that and chose to ignore my advice, I would've appreciated > a reply at least.

I did not. I would have heeded that advice.

On reflection, more explanation seems called for...

I've been flooded in a particularly repellent way recently. Somebody is using my From address for spam mail about quack remedies for prostate trouble, somebody so illiterate that the Subject line read "urnination flow". As a result, I've been getting several thousand bounce messages a day from sites rightly rejecting this crud, and hitting the 'd' key in rapid-fire mode.

I may have inadvertently flushed your mail, dammit, which is not something I would ever do deliberately. I subjunctively apologize. You may not be alone, I fear. I almost blew past mail from Dennis Ritchie last night, just barely caught myself in time. I'm wondering now what other important bits I lost... :-( :-( :-(

I do not regard the ConfigParser changes as at all urgent -- the bug is a minor one. So I won't be offended if Fred chooses to back them out.

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