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Couple points. First of all, you being a women in this case seems completely irrelevant to both your question and the people who responded to you on SO. Was the injection of gender supposed to give us context for your response, or imply that you were responded to differently because of it? Secondly, I guess we can disagree with what "mean" is. As you yourself pointed out, his response was super helpful to you -- and he isn't even paid to do it, just a friendly internet volunteer, helping you with your problem and linking you to more resources. As for what you called "mean" ... lets deconstruct that a bit... "Learn to write Python code properly according to the style guide" -- not mean, a short and to the point recommendation, abrasive at worst. "PEP-8 filter highlights only bad code" -- obviously as PEP-8 is a style guide, he means 'badly styled code', he could have made it more clear, but I think the context is obvious. "and in your case the whole file is badly written." -- this is important, it explains why there is markup on every line, and again PEP-8 is a style guide, so he is saying your entire file is badly formatted by PEP-8 standards. Again, nothing hurtful in there. I can see how the words "bad code" might be an emotional trigger, but in context, it makes perfect sense and since you didn't show any real code, just some boilerplate Poll/Choose -- I can't even fathom what there was to be defensive about, or hurt by. |