[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: Remove mention of medical condition from the test suite.

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Jim Jewett writes:

 > If you're going to get rid of the pun, you might as well change the
 > whole sentence...

In fact, he should, since this is such a well-known pun that many
people will consciously make the reverse substitution, and wonder WTF
python-dev was thinking when they put the amended sentence in the
test.  Maybe somebody was *trying* to offend people who make such
corrections habitually by demonstrating the kind of nonsense they
occasionally produce.  I've seen that target hit several times.

Also, the log should say why this was done.

- Remove mention of medical condition from the test suite.
+ Change potentially offensive language in the test suite.

One could also use the somewhat euphemistic "unprofessional language".
That points to why such changes are justified despite an author's
right to have her mode of expression respected -- the Python project
aims at professionalism, and offensive language detracts from it.