[Python-Dev] Python-dev summary for 2002-08-15 - 2002-09-01

[Guido van Rossum]

> Looks good to me.  The only trivial nit I would like to raise is that any
> URLs you embed in the text be true URLs.  I'd also prefer they be encased in
> <...>, but that's slightly less important and generally only matters when
> URLs are immediately followed by punctuation.  So, instead of
> 
>     Brett> Guido said he will revive the PEP.  The patch has since been put
>     Brett> on SF at python.org/sf/599331 .
> 
> you'd have
> 
>     Brett> Guido said he will revive the PEP.  The patch has since been put
>     Brett> on SF at <http://python.org/sf/599331>.
> 
> The two changes make it much more likely that email readers will be able to
> successfully highlight such URLs correctly.

I think adding http:// alone should be sufficient.  Despite all the
official recommendations, I've always hated the <...> form.  However,
do keep a space after the URL if punctuation were to follow (which you
already did).

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)