On 17/12/2019 16:38, R.Wieser wrote:
> Pancho,
>
>> I think Rudy was complaining Richard was unhelpful as opposed to wrong.
>
> Bingo !
>
>> The thread came across as Richard, the professional coder, unwilling to
>> adapt his answer to suit the needs of an enthusiastic novice.
>
> Yep exactly that, and not at all.
>
> No matter how correct an answer might be, if the person you're talking to
> doesn't understand it its worth exactly nothing to him.
>
> So you don't change the answer itself, but you actually want to help you
> /do/ try to rephrase or even re-explain it so it gets across.     At least,
> that is what I always did.
>
> But for the record: richard clasified my attempts to explain what I thought
> was happening as "strange theories about what it does".  Should /I/ now
> adapt my answer to suit the needs of him ?    But not the other way around ?
> Really ?
>
> And a straight-forward question to you: Should I simply /lie/ about me
> understanding what richard said (and drop the whole thing I was busy with as
> a result of not understanding this part) ?    'Cause thats the only option
> you seem to be giving me ... :-(
>

I think you have misunderstood my comment, I was agreeing with you. I
was commenting that Richard could have been more understanding. My
English wasn't as plain as it should have been for a non native speaker.

I wasn't actually offering you any advice as to how you should behave.
The Raspberry Pi is intended an educational tool and hence I think
people asking questions on the group should not be expected to
communicate at the same high level as would be expected in other
software discussions, elsewhere.

For what it is worth I suspect some contributors to the group have many
decades professional experience. In a professional context more would be
expected of you. For instance I would have expected you to look up what
PyType_GenericNew was and to know it was a function and hence that the
field tp_new was function pointer. However I don't think that is a
reasonable expectation in a group dedicated to an introductory learning
device, which is what the RPi is designed to be, even if that isn't what
a lot of us do with them.

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