On Thu, 02 Jul 2020 17:58:44 -0400 Random832 <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 2, 2020, at 05:20, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > We're not talking about posting "your own writing", we're talking about > > comments (and presumably documentation) in a collective software > > project. There's a need for consistency, however it's > > specified and achieved. > > > > Otherwise why stop at English? I could just as well write my comments > > in French if it's all about individual freedom. Requiring English is > > not inclusive, it forced people like me to painfully adapt to a > > language I wasn't used to. And that has nothing to do with "white > > supremacy". > > Why indeed?
Because we're talking about PEP 8, and PEP 8 intends to cover the code style used when writing code in the *Python standard library*. I don't think other Python core developers would like to read code with comments written in French (or, indeed, in Russian or Japanese or...). We're not talking about third-party projects, which indeed choose whatever style and language suit them. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/Z34JMPDRWRVFHNTR4DLPE5THXWDYC7OR/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
