[Doc-SIG] f(...) vs. f (...) inconsistency

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Peter Funk writes:
 > this is a very tiny issue, but it bugged over the years:
 > 
 > In his Styleguide Guido wrote:
 >    """I **hate** whitespace in the following places: [...]
 >       Immediately before the open parenthesis that starts the argument 
 >       list of a function call, as in spam (1). Always write this as spam(1)."""
 > I agree to 100% with this. 
 > On the other hand I very often cut'n'paste between the library reference manual
 > pages and an open editor window.  Unfortunately in the library reference 
 > there are spaces between function names and the opening parenthesis, which
 > I always have to remove manually.  
 > 
 > How come?  Should the library documentation be fixed in this regard?

  I think that's a historical artefact, but it may make sense to keep
it to ease readability.
  I'm publishing a version of the development documentation that makes
this change, and am requesting feedback to python-docs.


  -Fred

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