Comments by JohnDoDoDo (Top 1 by date)

Hi Griff, thanks for your well-considered opinion, if not for your help. I didn't realise humour was prohibited...

FYI, I have a few decade's experience as a Senior Systems Engineer, and have done my share of production scripting in DOS, PowerShell & VBA. I am new to Python & QT, but I'm taking the trouble to learn it because my latest little project to help save a few lay-people 2-3 hours each a week will be more useful as a cross-platform solution (MS & Mac).

I am NOT a programmer, but I understand concepts of functional programming, OOP, code reusability, style, etc. My particular method of learning is to have a crack, and clean it up as my understanding of the problem develops. Learning by doing, and figuring out how it works as I go. My retention is not that good when I go on a course to learn something, if I don't have a real-world problem to solve straight away. If it is necessary to go on a formal course for tens of hours before trying something, the world would be a much less productive place.

I'm not quite sure why you took the trouble to reply to my post; do you actually know what the cause of the error is? If you're just looking for someone to put down, look elsewhere.