I removed it by mistake due to lack of knowledge, so I undid that mistake.
The status-quo appears to be that these are left in place. I've been told that there was previous discussion on this topic already and the status-quo was not broken. Personally I don't mind. On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 6:19 AM Inada Naoki <songofaca...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't think we need to revive ^L once it is removed. > > The steering council decided there is no real "code owner". > Codes are owned by everyone. > > On the other hand, ^L is very minor control character nowadays. > Many new people use many new editors. I don't believe every common > editors support ^L well. > And even though editor supports it, people may be confused by it. > > If only few core developer likes ^L, why we need to add it even though > it is removed by accident? What makes ^L more important than TAB? > > Regards, > > On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 3:52 AM Tal Einat <talei...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 8:50 PM Eric V. Smith <e...@trueblade.com> > wrote: > >> > >> Replying to python-committers for visibility, although maybe python-dev > >> would be better. > >> > >> That's not a "strange non-ASCII character"! That's a form feed > >> (control-L), definitely defined by ASCII. > >> > >> There are plenty of these in the code. Some people (who won't be named, > >> but match the regex "Barry") like them. I don't think we should start > >> removing them. > > > > > > Oh wow, I completely missed that! :blush: > > > > Terribly sorry, I'll revert the change. > > > > - Tal Einat > > _______________________________________________ > > python-committers mailing list -- python-committers@python.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to python-committers-le...@python.org > > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-committers.python.org/ > > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-committers@python.org/message/MJ4GFBC72FGFX52Z7VDBJ4V2VURAWPHJ/ > > Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > > > > -- > Inada Naoki <songofaca...@gmail.com> >
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