Glenn Linderman wrote:
On approximately 4/29/2009 1:28 PM, came the following characters from
So where is the ambiguity here?
None. But not everyone can read all the Python source code to try to
understand it; they expect the documentation to help them avoid that.
Because the documentation is lacking in this area, it makes your
concisely stated PEP rather hard to understand.
If you think a section of the doc is grossly inadequate, and there is no
existing issue on the tracker, feel free to add one.
Thanks for clarifying the Windows behavior, here. A little more
clarification in the PEP could have avoided lots of discussion. It
would seem that a PEP, proposed to modify a poorly documented (and
therefore likely poorly understood) area, should be educational about
the status quo, as well as presenting the suggested change.
Where the PEP proposes to change, it should start with the status quo.
But Martin's somewhat reasonable position is that since he is not
proposing to change behavior on Windows, it is not his responsibility to
document what he is not proposing to change more adequately. This
means, of course, that any observed change on Windows would then be a
bug, or at least a break of the promise. On the other hand, I can see
that this is enough related to what he is proposing to change that
better doc would help.
tjr
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