Roundup Robot added the comment:
New changeset 5135a431f7b3 by Ezio Melotti in branch '3.3':
#19067: use imperative mood in range object docstrings. Patch by Marco Buttu.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/5135a431f7b3
New changeset b2c752eff474 by Ezio Melotti in branch 'default':
#19067: merge
Ezio Melotti added the comment:
Fixed, thanks for the patch!
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stage: patch review - committed/rejected
status: open - closed
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Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
PEP8 just says PEP 257 describes good docstring conventions.
PEP 257 is what says '''It [the one line docstring] prescribes the function or
method's effect as a command (Do this, Return that), not as a description;
e.g. don't write Returns the pathname
Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
I asked on py-dev whether to do this.
#19068 and #19069 are similar issues for complex and float docstrings.
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Changes by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe tshep...@gmail.com:
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Changes by Raymond Hettinger raymond.hettin...@gmail.com:
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New submission from Marco Buttu:
The range documentation is not PEP-8 compatible:
range.__doc__.splitlines()[-1]
'Returns a virtual sequence of numbers from start to stop by step.'
range.__reversed__.__doc__
'Returns a reverse iterator.'
range.index.__doc__.splitlines()[-1]
'Raises
