I had to make two patches because the testing style has changed slightly between the two, but also, it's guaranteed to apply better if I make them against the tip of each version.

I apologize for the "link bait." I didn't intend it as such, I was actually making fun of my "accomplishment," having contributed a tiny patch that fixed an obscure problem.

I can see how it reads very differently on Hacker News...

Screw it— you have nothing to apologize for. It is because of people like you— fixing bugs big an small— that Python is a viable for big projects.

And to the dude who put it on his resume— good move. This helps a ton when someone is screening resumes.

You have nothing to apologize for!

FWIW Ned, I had to update my (generally lame) résumé recently and was a bit embarrassed to put CPython on my list of projects that I've contributed to due to the same type of thing: it was a small patch that fixed an obscure issue.

Anyways, I did it anyhow (with the caveat to make me feel better :P) but I felt the same way about the "accomplishment" :). So congrats!

(This is tos9 by the way).

Sorry for the negative comment (I'm about to delete). I missed the tongue-in-cheek nature of your posting and as others pointed out. It was a real bug.

meh, forget the haters. congrats on your bugfix, I'd be pretty excited about contributing to CPython, too!

Don't be silly. I have 2 super-trivial patches in the Linux kernel tree (one to fix an array-indexing bug, and another to blacklist a feature on a piece of broken hardware). They're simple patches, but I'm nonetheless really happy to have contributed to such a giant project. You shouldn't apologize for feeling the same and wanting to post to HN about it!

Worry not, your title is fine.

To label your guy, type "I am Joe", and it will have Joe underneath instead of a number.

To write really long names, use chrome console, type avatar.msg="I AM 123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890", close the console and press return on your screen

Just to be clear: there was no "money coming in," Tabblo stopped selling products shortly after HP bought the company in 2007, and the site had always been free to use online.

I wish HP had given more notice, or had tried to email the user base, though.

I'm sorry, is this a joke? "straightforward"? Why would you use that code when you could implement the same thing more simply like this?

    def line_number_mogrifier(f):
        num = 0
        for line in f:
            yield (num, line)
            num += 1

The functional proponents say that eventually everything will be functional, I guess I'll wait and see how that goes over. People think procedurally. Functional constructs may have some technical advantages, but if adopting them shrinks the pool of effective developers, it won't catch on.

So when you said, "looks just like Python," you literally meant, "lexically looks like Python," because you aren't building a language that works just like Python.

The simple fact that these workshops fill up so quickly with women who are excited by the structure is evidence that they are good for the overall programming community, and therefore, productive.

I suspect if you run a workshop for men only, even the men would wonder why. This is evidence that men don't need men-only workshops.

Most of the instructors are female, though there are a few men. Why do you ask?

I was asking "Troll_Whisperer" about his hypothetical inverse event aimed at Men. I was not expecting a good answer because I was sure he had not thought through the idea in a meaningful way.

HP in Massachusetts is looking for Python talent: http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200912/looking_for_a_python_de...