[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r86750 - python/branches/py3k/Demo/curses/life.py

[Michael Foord]

On 27/11/2010 15:04, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Michael Foord
> <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk>  wrote:
>>> I just resign myself to having to spell words like colour and
>>> serialise wrong when I'm working on Python. Compared to the
>>> adjustments the non-native English speakers have to make, I figure I'm
>>> getting off lightly ;)
>>>
>> I *thought* that the Python policy was that English speakers wrote
>> documentation in English and American speakers wrote documentation in
>> American and that we *don't* insist on US spellings in the Python
>> documentation?
> If we're just talking about those things in generally, then that's a
> reasonable rule. But when in close proximity to an actual API that
> uses the American spelling, or modifying a file that uses the relevant
> word a lot, following the prevailing style is a definite courtesy to
> the reader.
>
Ok, thanks. Sounds like a good guideline.

Michael

> Cheers,
> Nick.
>


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