And here:

https://github.com/python/peps/blob/master/pep-0637.txt

is the source to look at -- and the repo to do a PR against.

-CHB


On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 3:34 PM Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 8:29 AM Henk-Jaap Wagenaar
> <wagenaarhenkj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I noticed a sentence that was not completed in PEP 637. Though I have
> made (pretty minor) contributions to CPython and some other things, it
> isn't entirely clear to me whether it would be appropriate for me to submit
> an issue or pull request for this, and what the general policy is?
> >
> > https://github.com/python/peps/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.rst does not
> make it any clearer to me, I guess it is kinda the Wild West and depends on
> the PEP/what the change is? Would it be worth clarifying this?
> >
> >
> > Secondly, I wasn't 100% sure this make was a rendering mistake or in the
> source. Would it be possible/an idea to include a link to the source (like
> the Python documentation does)?
> >
> > [I am sure people will be curious what the mistake was:
> >
> > >>> a[3]       # returns the fourth element of a
> >
> > has the comment unfinished. I guess it should say list or something
> similar.]
> >
>
> Actually it's returning the fourth element of "the thing in the
> variable named 'a'", so it's not the English article. If you feel
> that's unclear, you could propose a change that renames the variable,
> perhaps.
>
> Pull requests are absolutely appropriate for simple changes,
> copyediting, etc. You'll be asked to sign the licensing agreement, but
> for extremely tiny changes (say, just fixing a missed bit of
> punctuation), we can override the CLA bot and merge the change anyway.
>
> ChrisA
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