"R.Wieser"  writes:
> TNP,
>
>> In the few years that I worked in the same company as Richard, I
>> never knew him to be *wrong* openly.

Thankyou for the vote of confidence l-)

> And it turns out he wasn't.  But thats not the problem.
>
> For some reason he just assumed that his description of what actually
> happens should make sense to me, and when I indicated that it didn't he just
> posted the same again (instead of trying something different).   Which is
> all sorts of things, but definitily /not/ helpfull.

> Besides that, I think I was rather clear about what I thought would be
> happening (starting with "As far as I can (now) tell, the "PWMType.tp_new =
> PyType_GenericNew;" line creates a single instance" at 19/12/03), but
> somehow that was not picked up on.
>
> Just a simple "no instance is created" reply by Ahem brought me, after
> more than a handfull of messages on the subject, back on the right
> track.

I literally said “It doesn’t create an instance of anything”. Back on
the 3rd, Dennis told you when instances (of the PWM type) were actually
created. He also quoted the documentation of PyType_GenericNew,
clarifying that it was a function, another thing that apparently only
registered when Steve told you.

If you had mentioned that you thought it was a class then things might
have gone a bit quicker. The idea that you’d have that particular
misconception simply didn’t occur to me because (1) you’d already seen
the documentation for it, so if you’d been paying attention you’d know
what is was and (2) there is no such thing as a class in the C language.

> tl;dr:
> if richard may demand from me that I "just understand" his explanation,
> should I than not be allowed to demand he "just understands" my
> problem/confusion ?    Or is there some unwritten law somewhere which
> forbids that  ?

I’m not asking that you “just understand”, I am asking that you pay
attention to what is being said. When there’s one right answer to a
question then it’s inherent that there’s going to be some repetitiveness
in any discussion about it, because the right answer doesn’t change.

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