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calling a method for a docstring
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No. The point is to try and understand your goal and not the solution you think you need to achieve it.

I've seen people come up with extremely complicated solutions to problems and then post to ask for help with them. What happens in those cases is that people can go in circles telling them it's a bad idea, or trying to understand what they really want it for.. but no-one really gets anywhere. One particular example I can think of is that the OP had a problem with pickling and type checking and their thread was focussing on that. After going back and forth a while, we did manage to get somewhere: it turned out what they wanted to do was make sure their software still worked after changing it. Had they lead with that goal, we'd have gotten to pointing them to automated testing much more quickly.
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calling a method for a docstring - by Skaperen - Jan-25-2020, 06:59 PM
RE: calling a method for a docstring - by buran - Jan-25-2020, 07:13 PM
RE: calling a method for a docstring - by Skaperen - Jan-25-2020, 07:20 PM
RE: calling a method for a docstring - by ndc85430 - Jan-25-2020, 07:23 PM
RE: calling a method for a docstring - by Skaperen - Jan-25-2020, 07:30 PM
RE: calling a method for a docstring - by ndc85430 - Jan-25-2020, 08:14 PM
RE: calling a method for a docstring - by Skaperen - Jan-25-2020, 11:45 PM
RE: calling a method for a docstring - by ndc85430 - Jan-26-2020, 07:03 AM
RE: calling a method for a docstring - by Skaperen - Jan-27-2020, 01:16 AM

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